Amazon
Security Engineer I, Threat Hunting, Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)
$136K–$184K
Arlington, VA · Full-time · Posted May 22, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years; non-internship experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- The selected candidate must be a US Person.
About the job
Proactively hunts for cyber threats in large-scale security data, develops detection capabilities, and supports incident response investigations.
What you'll do
- Query and analyze large security datasets to identify threat activity and signals.
- Support incident response teams investigating and containing security events.
- Develop scripts, searches, and custom threat-hunting capabilities at petabyte scale.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non-internship) experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- Experience solving basic problems by writing code or scripts with some assistance
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
Pay
136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS
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