Amazon
Sr Security Engineer, Perimeter Threat Research Team
$178K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Feb 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of IT Security experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree.
About the job
Researches cyber threats and builds threat-intelligence systems to detect and disrupt adversaries and strengthen AWS security services.
What you'll do
- Build threat-data gathering security systems at scale and produce actionable threat intelligence.
- Analyze malware, web application vulnerabilities, botnets, and network attacks; develop detections and mitigation strategies.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with software engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree.
- 5+ years of IT Security experience.
- Strong malware reverse-engineering skills, including static and dynamic analysis.
- Expertise in web application security, threat hunting, SIEM detections, network security, DDoS mitigation, and botnet research.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and STIX/TAXII.
- Scripting experience (e.g., Python, Ruby, Perl) and experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Pay
178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
IDA Pro, Ghidra, x64dbg, Burp Suite, Wireshark, Zeek, NetFlow, MITRE ATT&CK
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