Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon GuardDuty is a customer facing threat detection service within AWS. We are seeking software development engineers who are passionate about security, with interest in reverse engineering. You will contribute to building large-scale distributed systems using AI to detect threats and process trillions of log events.

You will work with applied scientists and security researchers to codify analytics into the service, delivering customer-centric software and learning from world-class engineers.

Qualifications

• Interest in security and threat detection domains.
• Experience with or eagerness to work on large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain large-scale distributed applications for threat detection.
• Collaborate with security researchers and scientists to codify security analytics.
• Apply machine learning techniques to improve threat detection and logging analytics.

Skills

Reverse engineering

Security domain experience

Distributed systems

AI/ML familiarity

Job description

Amazon GuardDuty is a customer facing threat detection service that was built to protect applications and services running in AWS. We are looking for software developement engineers with interest and experience in security domain (reverse engineering skills is a huge plus). In this role, you will be building large scale applications in distributed sytems using AI .

GuardDuty is a fast growing AWS Threat Detection service, that processes trillions of log events, and applies advanced analytics and machine learning to detect threats and aggregate threat intelligence. If you are interested in learning about operating a threat detection service and working alongside world class engineers, then this role is for you.

The team interacts with applied scientist and security researchers to codify security analytics into the service. In this role, you will enjoy working on complex software systems in a customer-centric environment.

Why is it cooler at AWS and specifically GuardDuty

• We work on real-world security problems of cloud threat detection
• GuardDuty is one of the fast growing AWS services
• You will design and develop large scale distributed systems (latency, scale requirements)- terabytes of daily log data processing
• High Availability, Low Latency service - applications that processes streaming event at 100B every hour from EC2 machines, ECS, EKS hosts.
• Access to Mentorship - Principal Engineers, Senior Engineers, Security Engineers
• Apply Machine Learning in the security domain.