Senior AI Threat Detection Engineer

Amazon; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon GuardDuty is hiring a highly skilled senior software engineer to build scalable analytics and ML systems for AI threat detection. You will collaborate with applied scientists and security researchers to transform research into production capabilities that protect AWS customers.

You will own design, implementation, reviews, and on-call support in a highly available, customer-facing environment. The role emphasizes mentorship and leadership across teams in Boston-area or remote as

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale, distributed security detection systems.
• Extend GuardDuty’s capabilities into the AI Threat Detection domain by developing detections for emerging threats targeting AI models and generative AI applications.
• Collaborate with applied scientists and security researchers to transform research outcomes - such as anomaly detection methods and large language model (LLM) based approaches - into scalable, production-ready systems.
• Drive the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, planning, design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, and operational support.
• Conduct design and code reviews, providing feedback on architecture, scalability, performance, and integration.
• Operate in a highly available, customer-facing environment with on-call responsibilities (typically one week every two months), and contribute to building resilient systems that minimize operational load.
• Participate in root cause analysis and long-term improvements to ensure operational excellence and reduce recurring issues.

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

Mentorship

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Cloud (AWS)

Job description

Amazon GuardDuty is hiring a highly skilled senior software engineer to build scalable analytics and ML systems for AI threat detection. You will collaborate with applied scientists and security researchers to transform research into production capabilities that protect AWS customers.

You will own design, implementation, reviews, and on-call support in a highly available, customer-facing environment. The role emphasizes mentorship and leadership across teams in Boston-area or remote as