Data Scientist, AWS Security

About the role

As a Data Scientist on our team, you will leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to protect our cloud infrastructure from security threats. You'll develop and deploy sophisticated anomaly detection models, predictive algorithms, and real-time analysis systems that identify and help automate the mitigation of cyber threats across Amazon's infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large-scale security data using statistical methods and data mining techniques
• Create automated systems for real-time pattern recognition and risk assessment
• Build data pipelines and ETL processes to handle massive security datasets
• Translate complex analytical findings into actionable security insights
• Collaborate with software engineers, security engineers, and fellow data scientists
• Run experiments to assess potential risk of security responses
• Expand our existing LLM agent pipelines
• Analyze post mortems to understand what data signals could have prevented the occurrence

Requirements

• Experience with Python and a strong background in statistical analysis and machine learning

Qualifications

• 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
• Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), or experience working in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)

Skills

• Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem-solving
• Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
• Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
• Experience applying quantitative analysis to solve business problems and making data-driven business decisions

Benefits

We understand that life is dynamic and we have a flexible work environment that enables individuals to adjust their work schedule to accommodate personal needs. Our team is distributed, though most of the team is located in Maryland and Virginia. We generally keep core business hours of 10:00 AM EST - 3:00 PM EST, while allowing flexibility as needed.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $136,000.00 - $184,000.00 USD annually.

Schedule

Our team is distributed, though most of the team is located in Maryland and Virginia. We generally keep core business hours of 10:00 AM EST - 3:00 PM EST, while allowing flexibility as needed.