Security Engineer, Enterprise Protection Program - Account Misuse Team

Security Engineer, Enterprise Protection Program - Account Misuse Team

The Enterprise Protection Program - Account Misuse Team (EPP-AM) is seeking a Security Engineer to lead the identification, investigation, and mitigation of insider threats to Amazon through advanced data analysis and threat hunting techniques.

We seek a security professional who thrives on "diving deep" into complex data challenges and enjoys the technical aspects of threat hunting. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical and investigation skills with innovative thinking to develop "think big" solutions that advance our security capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on Amazon's security posture while working with innovative tools and technologies in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

• Lead daily investigations into active insider threats using data from internal and external sources.
• Build sophisticated queries and process large datasets to identify and pursue potential insider threat activity.
• Apply deep analytical skills to uncover complex security patterns and anomalies.
• Develop proactive, innovative projects that leverage technical expertise to create solutions.
• Design and implement tools for detection, mitigation, and prevention of insider threat activity.
• Drive security process improvements to strengthen Amazon's internal threat protection capabilities.
• Partner effectively with HR, legal, engineering, analytics, and prevention teams to execute security initiatives.
• Deliver results both independently and through collaborative efforts across multiple partner teams.
• Contribute to team knowledge sharing.
• Take ownership of complex security challenges.
• Contribute to strategic security planning and process optimization.
• Participate in on‑call responsibilities (typically one week every two months).

Drive High‑Impact Security Solutions:
You’ll tackle complex insider threat cases and spearhead strategic projects that directly reduce risk across Amazon's global operations. Each day brings unique challenges as you analyze threat patterns, investigate security incidents, and develop innovative approaches.

Collaborate Across the Enterprise:
Your day involves dynamic interactions with internal security stakeholders, engineering teams, and service partners across both Amazon and AWS. You’ll facilitate cross‑functional meetings, provide security expertise to diverse teams, and build relationships that enable effective threat mitigation.

Lead Innovation and Process Development:
You’ll spend time designing and developing tools that streamline insider threat detection and response, identifying gaps in current processes and architecting scalable solutions.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 3+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non‑internship).
• 3+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in a common programming language (non‑internship).
• Experience working with global teams and diverse partners.
• 4+ years of fraud investigation, abuse, cyber‑crimes, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with AWS products and services.
• 2+ years of any combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security.
• Knowledge of command line tools to troubleshoot protocols, analyze log outputs, or automate basic tasks.
• Experience in running SQL queries and data mining.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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USA, VA, Herndon -  -  USD annually; USA, WA, Seattle -  -  USD annually.