Security Engineer II, Enterprise Protection Program

Join Amazon's Security organization as a Security Engineer within our Enterprise Protection Program, where you'll be at the forefront of evaluating, investigating, and mitigating active insider risks. This role is ideal for someone passionate about diving deep into cyber-aligned insider threat issues, analyzing data to identify trends, and innovating detection and prevention mechanisms. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and industry partners to shape enterprise security solutions.

Responsibilities

• Independently investigate complex cyber-aligned insider threat issues.
• Perform deep-dive analysis of internal and external datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and activities indicative of insider risks.
• Author comprehensive, clear summaries of complex incidents for both technical and executive audiences.
• Identify and drive opportunities to automate and optimize insider risk analytics, tooling, and processes.
• Collaborate with other Amazon Security teams and external partners to mitigate insider risks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 2+ years of IT Security experience.
• Experience implementing security solutions at the cross-team level.
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks using command line tools (non-internship).
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.

Preferred Qualifications

• Information security professional certification.
• Experience in application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, secure infrastructure, penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls, threat modeling, cryptography, threat intelligence, or secure software development.
• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non-internship).
• Experience with AWS products and services.

About the Team

Amazon Security values diverse experiences and encourages candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if they don’t meet every qualification. Security is central to maintaining customer trust at Amazon, and our team works across a wide variety of areas, including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

We foster an inclusive culture where learning and curiosity are celebrated. Addressing security challenges requires diverse ideas, perspectives, and voices. Amazon Security is committed to continuous learning, career growth, and work-life harmony, offering flexible work arrangements and resources to support your professional and personal well-being.

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every six months.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, with optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Pay

Base salary range: $159,300 - $202,400 USD annually (locations: Arlington, VA or Herndon, VA). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.