Security Engineer II, Threat Hunting, Security Incident Response Team (SIRT)

Benefits

Parental leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Non-birth-parent leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Family-building benefits

• Fertility benefits: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Adoption assistance: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Surrogacy assistance: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Mental health support

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Childcare support

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Salary

$159K-$202K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Role

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Security From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Equity

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About this role

Security Engineer II, Threat Hunting, Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) Arlington, Virginia, USA Amazon's Threat Hunting team is looking for a Security Engineer, Threat Hunting who is excited by the idea of searching for and uncovering undetected threat activities at petabyte scale. In this role, you will work alongside other Threat Hunting engineers to proactively identify and eliminate threats wherever they may exist. Our Threat Hunting team hunts for adversarial activity using a variety of tools, methods, intelligence, and techniques. They work hands-on with security logs and are encouraged to be creative and develop innovative techniques to illuminate threat activities. With your technical expertise, you will be solving security challenges at scale and working to protect applications powering the most sophisticated e-Commerce platform ever built. If you are someone who enjoys researching threats, diving deep into large datasets, and building innovative capabilities to solve everyday problems, we'd like to meet you. Your work will be essential to maintaining customer trust and delivering a delightful experience for our customers. Key job responsibilities - You will query and collate machine data to search for evidence of potentially damaging threat activities which pose a risk to Amazon customers and data. - You will work alongside incident responders and support the investigation of ongoing security issues. - You will reconstruct security events from log data and develop innovative approaches to identify threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). - You will build custom security solutions and mechanisms to identify threats and enable threat hunting

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