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Security Engineer II, Amazon GuardDuty

Seattle, Washington, United States💼 Full-time💰 $159,300–$159,300🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-25

Core

Researching attack patterns, building attack simulations, and validating detection mechanisms for Amazon GuardDuty, a managed threat detection service protecting AWS accounts.

Role type

Senior IC security engineer (red team)

Builds

Attack simulations, detection validation tools, and threat intelligence for AWS customers

Domain

Cloud security, threat detection, red teaming

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Red team penetration testing, exploit development, malware analysis, networking protocols (HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP), vulnerability assessment

Preferred skills

Python/Java/C++ scripting, AWS product experience, command line automation, security code review

Technologies

AWS, Python, Java, C++, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP

Responsibilities

Develop scripts and tools to enhance red team capabilities, work with data scientists to test detections for complex exploitation patterns, build simulations to validate tools and techniques, advise the team on current threat landscape and tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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