Amazon’s Subsidiary and Acquisition (S&A) Security team is looking for a highly motivated Threat Detection Engineer to join our team and implement detective and protective mechanisms for our products. You will play a pivotal role in fortifying our defense mechanisms and proactively identifying and mitigating potential threats. You should be a technically experienced and innovative security engineer who has the ability to understand systems, security, and privacy processes, communicate to customers, and to be able to drive innovative process changes through multiple organizations and teams.

Key job responsibilities
* Threat Detection: Utilize previous experience analyzing large datasets to develop, measure, and tune detection rules to ensure effective and sustainable operations.

* Forensics and Analysis: Analyze incidents to understand attack vectors, tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).

* Threat Hunting: Search for signs of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and other malicious
activities, utilizing internal data sources.

* Rule and Content Development: Craft and refine detection rules, use cases and signatures to enhance the accuracy of detection systems, adapting to emerging threats and attack vectors.

* Incident Response: Build mechanisms and detections to enable partner Incident Response teams triaging issues impacting the customer experience.

* Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with incident responders, security engineers, and other stakeholders to improve the security posture of the S&A customer organizations.

A day in the life
The Subsidiary and Acquisition (S&A) Security team designs and engineers high-profile consumer devices, including the Ring, Blink, Amazon Keys, and Side walk family of products. The S&A team works to ensure that our services are designed and implemented to the high standards required to maintain and enhance customer trust. Security and Privacy are paramount to maintaining trust and we need to continue to build trusted products, maintain and operate trusted environments, and advocate trust to customers and stakeholders.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Austin, TX, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Hawthorne, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA | Washington DC, DC, USA