Senior AI Threat Detection Engineer

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon GuardDuty is seeking a senior software engineer to help build the future of the service. You will design, build, and operate large-scale security detection systems at AWS scale.

You will collaborate with scientists to turn research into production ML and anomaly-detection systems, including AI threat detection for models and generative AI apps. The role includes on-call responsibilities and a strong focus on reliability and security.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years in design or architecture of distributed systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in CS/Engineering/Math.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

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 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.

Skills

C#

C++

Java

Object Oriented Design

Distributed systems

Multi-threaded programming

Software design

Big data technologies

ML / MLOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Math

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Hadoop

Spark

Pig

Hive

Lucene/SOLR

Storm/Samza

Job description

Amazon GuardDuty is seeking a senior software engineer to help build the future of the service. You will design, build, and operate large-scale security detection systems at AWS scale.

You will collaborate with scientists to turn research into production ML and anomaly-detection systems, including AI threat detection for models and generative AI apps. The role includes on-call responsibilities and a strong focus on reliability and security.