Senior Software Engineer, AI Threat Detection

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Boston (MA); On-site; USD 158,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a senior software engineer to help build GuardDuty analytics and AI threat detection systems at AWS scale.

You will work with applied scientists and security researchers to translate research into production-ready detections and drive end-to-end software delivery. You will own the full SDLC, participate in design reviews, and operate in a highly available, customer-facing environment with periodic on-call duties, contributing to resilient security

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of OO design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 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—such as anomaly detection methods and 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 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

C++

Java

C#

Object Oriented Design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Pig

Hive

Lucene/SOLR

Storm/Samza

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. seeks a senior software engineer to help build GuardDuty analytics and AI threat detection systems at AWS scale.

You will work with applied scientists and security researchers to translate research into production-ready detections and drive end-to-end software delivery. You will own the full SDLC, participate in design reviews, and operate in a highly available, customer-facing environment with periodic on-call duties, contributing to resilient security