[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Amazon jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Amazon · Boston, MA # Security Engineer II, Amazon GuardDuty US, MA, Boston Security Listed on Amazon’s official careers site. Posted October 5, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10569420/security-engineer-ii-amazon-guardduty) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Amazon](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/) / Security Engineer II, Amazon GuardDuty ## Job description Amazon GuardDuty is a customer facing threat detection service that was built to protect applications and services running in AWS. The service processes trillions of events and applies advanced analytics and machine learning to detect threats. If you are interested in learning about operating a service at massive scale and working alongside world class engineers, then this role is for you. The Security Engineer position will be working on Amazon GuardDuty, which is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads. It monitors for activity such as unusual API calls or potentially unauthorized deployments that indicate a possible account compromise. GuardDuty also detects potentially compromised instances or reconnaissance by attackers. This is an advanced engineering team that is using cutting edge techniques to help customers assess, monitor and protect their cloud based resources. We are looking for an experienced security engineer with red team penetration testing skills to join this team to research, tune and validate our detection mechanisms. A successful candidate for this role will have a deep understanding of both information security and computer science. If you can exploit at scale while remaining stealthy, identify and exploit misconfigurations in network resources, develop out of the box techniques, and communicate complex info in a digestible manner, you could be an ideal candidate. The scope of this role includes researching attack patterns, building attack simulations, active testing, and mentoring data scientists and software engineers. In this role, you will interface with many internal security teams to keep up to date with the latest attack techniques. Key job responsibilities ### As a Security Engineer, you’ll - Recognize and safely utilize attacker tools, tactics and procedures - Develop scripts, tools or methodologies to enhance red team capabilities - Work with data scientists to help develop and test detections for complex exploitation patterns - Build simulations to validate tools and techniques - Advise broader team on current threat landscape, tools & techniques - Ability to a detonate and analyze behavioral patterns of Malware - Create Intellectual Property, influence others while demonstrating significant creativity and being vocally self-critical ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 5, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 11, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 13 days - Location: US, MA, Boston[Apply on Amazon’s careers site →](https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10569420/security-engineer-ii-amazon-guardduty) ## More jobs at Amazon ### [Security Engineer, Corporate Services Security](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/6738fe727cc880537ef8/) US, MA, Boston ### [Account Manager, Global Financial Services](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/809b0142cb0bf3738ba9/) US, MA, Boston ### [Applied Scientist III, Foundation AI Assets (FAI)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/bf591c36b6e9101f65f6/) US, MA, Boston ### [Applied Scientist, Machine Learning Accelerator - Annapurna Labs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/amazon/jobs/5cda1a3241a9c057bd13/) US, MA, Boston ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Infrastructure Engineer III - Amazon Connect](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/jpmorganchase/jobs/f424a8a911c5539d8e87/) JPMorganChase · New York, NY, United States ### [Senior Security Engineer and Principal Security Engineer (Services)- Multiple Positions](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/b6753970a16d429916ee/) Microsoft · United States, Multiple Locations ### [Senior Security Engineer – Akamai & Edge Security Services](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cvs-health/jobs/d22650e4c91ab2010476/) CVS Health · New York, NY ### [Senior Software Engineer, Contact Center Platforms (Java/AWS/Amazon Connect)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/ntt/jobs/24a713cd9cf528ae7fd4/) NTT · Plano, TX, US, United States ### [Senior Security Assurance Engineer - Marketing Security Risk & Compliance](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/80318c1f282fc365e238/) Microsoft · United States, Washington, Redmond [Jobs in Boston, MA](/locations/us/ma/boston/)[Jobs in Massachusetts](/locations/us-ma/)[Security jobs](/functions/security/) OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. Dates come from the employer where stated; “first seen” and “last checked” are our own observations. OpenNash Jobs · Official listings with dates and links to the employer. [Weekly hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [Methodology](/methodology/)