Amazon
Security Engineer II, Amazon GuardDuty
$159K–$213K
Seattle, WA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
New York, NY - Experience
- 2+ years of IT Security experience as an alternative to a bachelor’s degree in a STEM field; preferred 2+ years of scripting, programming, or security code review experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent; alternatively, a bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
About the job
Researches attack patterns and builds and tests simulations to improve Amazon GuardDuty’s threat detection mechanisms.
What you'll do
- Develop red-team tools, scripts, and methodologies; safely use attacker tools and techniques.
- Work with data scientists to develop and test detections, and build simulations to validate tools and techniques.
- Analyze malware behavior and advise teams on the threat landscape and current attack techniques.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field, or 2+ years of IT Security experience.
- Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
- Knowledge of security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
Nice to have
- 2+ years of scripting, programming, or security code review in a common language.
- Experience with AWS products and services; familiarity with command-line tools.
Pay
159,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually (base salary); 159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, Python, Java, C++, AWS
AI focus
Works with data scientists to develop and test threat detections; the service uses machine learning to detect threats.
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