Security Engineer II, Traffic Quality, Traffic Quality
Core
Build specialized techniques to detect and mitigate ad fraud and invalid traffic (IVT) within Amazon Advertising, protecting advertiser spend and ensuring traffic targets human audiences.
Role type
Senior IC security engineer (ad fraud & threat hunting)
Builds
Robust Traffic Quality platform and specialized threat detection/mitigation techniques
Domain
Advertising technology, programmatic advertising risk, cybersecurity
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
reverse engineering, deep packet inspection, network security, operating systems knowledge, browser architecture understanding, malware analysis, threat detection, risk hunting, programming in Python/Go/Java/C++
Preferred skills
AWS products experience, threat modeling, secure coding, identity management, cryptography, system administration
Technologies
HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, AWS
Responsibilities
Conduct targeted threat hunting on the dark web, build mitigation techniques via reverse engineering and network signature identification, collaborate with internal security teams to share intelligence and devise detection methods, influence leaders to improve security standards, proactively identify problems with product and security teams
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
