SDE II: GuardDuty Cloud Security Platform

Amazon Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join the GuardDuty team in Seattle, WA. You will design, build, and operate highly available, scalable distributed systems powering GuardDuty's billing and usage platform, and contribute across the full software lifecycle.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with security engineers, applied scientists, and product managers, and drive operational excellence in a fast-paced, high-impact environment protecting AWS customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object‑oriented design.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain highly available, scalable distributed systems for GuardDuty's billing and usage platform.
• Build and operate metadata services that enrich data for internal GuardDuty teams.
• Own and evolve the runtime agent provisioning and agent coverage platform across AWS compute services.
• Own features end-to-end across the full software development lifecycle — from design through deployment and operations.
• Write high-quality, testable code and participate in design and code reviews.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, driving root cause analysis and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with security engineers, applied scientists, and product managers to define technical solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team-wide engineering best practices.
• Contribute to operational excellence through on-call rotations, runbook development, and system monitoring.

Skills

Java

C++

C#

OO design

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join the GuardDuty team in Seattle, WA. You will design, build, and operate highly available, scalable distributed systems powering GuardDuty's billing and usage platform, and contribute across the full software lifecycle.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with security engineers, applied scientists, and product managers, and drive operational excellence in a fast-paced, high-impact environment protecting AWS customers worldwide.