Amazon
Security Engineer II, Amazon GuardDuty
$159K–$213K
Boston, MA +2 · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship software development; 2+ years of system design or architecture; 1+ year of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year developing large-scale software with a listed language; 1+ year of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Researches, builds, and tests attack simulations and detection mechanisms for Amazon GuardDuty, a managed AWS threat detection service.
What you'll do
- Research attack patterns and develop tools, scripts, and methodologies to strengthen red-team capabilities.
- Work with data scientists to develop and test detections, and build simulations to validate tools and techniques.
- Advise teams on threats and attacker techniques, and detonate and analyze malware behavior.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
- At least 1 year designing and developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; at least 1 year of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming in at least one language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life-cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
USD 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 annually (base salary); USD 159,300.00 - 212,800.00 annually (base salary); USD 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl
AI focus
Works with data scientists to develop and test threat detections using advanced analytics and machine learning.
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