Senior Security Engineer, AWS Security

About the role

Come and build innovative services that protect our cloud from security threats. As a Senior Security Engineer (SecEng), you’ll help to build and manage services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure. You’ll work with data scientists, software development engineers, and security engineers across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at massive scale. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers and preserves our customers’ trust in us. You’ll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats – not many teams can say that!

Responsibilities

• Research, identify, and prioritize security problems that can be detected using automation.
• Develop detection prototypes for these security problems to enhance our detection capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to prevent security issues at scale.
• Mentor and develop teammates both technically and professionally.
• Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technology to research, identify, and mitigate complex risks.

Requirements

• 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools
• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
• 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages
• Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
• Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques

Qualifications

• Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
• Experience with AWS Services including EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS
• Experience with big data technologies such as: Hadoop, Hive, Spark, EMR
• Experience leveraging native cloud telemetry (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, VPCFlow, R53 Resolver Logs) for detection engineering/incident response

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic