Security Engineer II, Ads Security
Core
Build and operate AI-powered threat hunting capabilities to detect, assess, and mitigate security risks in Amazon's Advertising business.
Role type
Senior IC Security Engineer (AI Threat Hunting)
Builds
AI-driven threat hunting workflows, agentic AI systems, and durable detections for web applications and services.
Domain
Cybersecurity / AI/ML / Cloud Security
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
hypothesis-driven threat hunting, adversary tradecraft, MITRE ATT&CK framework, AI/ML for threat hunting, prompt engineering, LLM integration, log and telemetry analysis, cloud security architecture (AWS), Python/Go/Java/C++
Preferred skills
generative AI and agentic systems, RAG architectures, Amazon Bedrock/SageMaker, open source security contributions, APT detection
Technologies
AWS (IAM, VPC, KMS), SIEM, data lakes, LLMs, Python, Go, Java, C++, MITRE ATT&CK
Responsibilities
Design and maintain AI-powered hunting workflows; conduct hypothesis-driven hunts using AI; build agentic AI workflows with human-in-the-loop; develop evaluation frameworks for AI hunting; operationalize findings into detections; mentor engineers on threat hunting and AI/ML; participate in on-call rotations for security incidents.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
