Amazon's Threat Hunting team is seeking a Security Engineer to proactively identify and eliminate undetected threat activities at a petabyte scale. This role involves working closely with other engineers to analyze security logs and develop innovative threat detection strategies. The team is dedicated to maintaining customer trust and enhancing security across Amazon's e-Commerce platform. Candidates should be excited about researching threats and diving deep into large datasets to solve security challenges.

• 2+ years of experience with web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing.
• Experience solving basic problems by writing code or scripts with some assistance.
• Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings.

• Query big data repositories to identify threat activities that pose a risk to Amazon customers and data.
• Work alongside incident response teams to support ongoing investigations and identify security events.
• Analyze security log data to identify threat behaviors and develop custom threat detection strategies.
• Author scripts and build custom capabilities to uncover threats at petabyte scale.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide support to internal customers during non-business hours.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.