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Security Engineer I, Threat Hunting, Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)

Arlington, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time💰 $136,000–$184,000🗓 2026-05-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Proactively identify and eliminate undetected threat activities at petabyte scale using security logs and custom detection strategies for Amazon's e-Commerce platform.

Role type

Security Engineer I, Threat Hunting

Builds

Custom threat detection capabilities and scripts for petabyte-scale operations

Domain

Cybersecurity, Threat Intelligence, Cloud Security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Web protocols, common security attacks, remediation techniques, system security vulnerabilities, penetration testing, exploit development, scripting, code analysis, threat behavior analysis, large dataset querying

Preferred skills

AWS services, cloud offerings

Technologies

Big data repositories, security logs, custom scripts

Responsibilities

Query big data repositories to identify threat activities, analyze security log data to identify threat behaviors, author scripts to enable threat hunting operations, provide direct support to incident response investigations, monitor cybersecurity media to maintain threat landscape awareness

Seniority

Individual Contributor, 2+ years experience

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