Security Engineer II, Amazon GuardDuty
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