Threat Detection Security Engineer, Amazon Stores Security

Are you excited about advancing the state of Threat Detection at scale to mitigate the risk from an ever-evolving threat landscape impacting a diverse range of businesses?

Amazon Stores Security’s Threat Detection (TD) team is looking for a highly motivated Threat Detection Engineer to join our team!

As a Security Engineer on TD, you will research emerging-threats to extract new detection ideas and build high confidence detections that proactively identify threats across log data at exabyte scale. You will work closely with Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, and Red team to obtain threat models of known threats to deliver detections enabling rapid response. TD will also look to see you develop innovative methods utilizing the latest techniques to rapidly detect threats at scale. Your expertise will be used to defend the data of Amazon's millions of customers against the most critical threats.

Key job responsibilities

• Identify critical threats on Amazon's network and deliver high fidelity threat detections.
• Enhance detection engineering processes to improve the detection engineering lifecycle.
• Develop platform requirements used to enrich alerts, and automate remediation and response actions.
• Research and develop mechanisms across to enhanceMachine-Learning, advanced data correlation, risk-based alerting, or Generative AI.
• Provide tactical detection support during security incidents.
• Automate your way through challenges using Python or other scripting language.

About the team

Why Amazon Security

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Work / Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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