Software Development Engineer AWS, Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors analyzes and processes AWS data sources and logs to identify unexpected potentially unauthorized and malicious activity within customer AWS environments. GuardDuty combines machine learning anomaly detection and malicious file discovery using both AWS and third-party sources to help protect workloads and data across AWS accounts.

Amazon GuardDuty is seeking talented Software Development Engineers to join a team in our Los Angeles office!. In this role you will design build and operate highly available scalable distributed systems that power GuardDutys Malware protection and Runtime Monitoring products. You will work on challenging problems at the intersection of cloud security distributed systems and customer experience building platforms that serve both internal teams and millions of external AWS customers.

You will be a hands-on engineer contributing to the full software development lifecycle from requirements gathering and system design through implementation testing deployment and operations. You will collaborate closely with security engineers applied scientists and product managers to deliver features that protect millions of AWS customers. This is a high-impact role where your work directly contributes to the security posture of AWS customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
- Design develop and maintain highly available scalable distributed systems for GuardDutys Malware Protection and Runtime Monitoring services
- 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
- Effectively leverage AI-assisted development tooling to accelerate design coding testing code review and operational workflows while maintaining a high quality bar
- Write high-quality testable code and participate in design and code reviews using AI tooling to improve velocity and consistency without compromising correctness or security
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues driving root cause analysis and operational excellence including using AI tooling to accelerate log analysis hypothesis generation and runbook execution
- Collaborate with security engineers applied scientists and product managers to define technical solutions
- Mentor junior engineers on engineering best practices including responsible and effective use of AI tooling and contribute to team-wide standards
- Contribute to operational excellence through on-call rotations runbook development and system monitoring

A day in the life
As an SDE II on this team you spend your time designing building and operating distributed systems that protect AWS customers from runtime threats at massive scale.

On any given day you might be drafting a design document for a new feature diving deep into code reviewing a teammates pull request or debugging a production issue - using AI tooling along the way to move faster without cutting corners on quality.

You collaborate with security engineers applied scientists and product managers to understand their needs and build the right solutions. You participate in operational reviews contribute to sprint planning and mentor teammates as part of how the team operates.

The work is varied fast-paced and high-impact - every line of code you ship helps protect AWS customers.

About the team
Our team owns two of GuardDutys core threat detection products: Malware Protection which scans EC2 workloads S3 objects for malicious files and supporting AWS Backup and Runtime Monitoring which uses an eBPF agent to detect threats in real time across EC2 ECS Fargate and EKS.
We work at the intersection of security research distributed systems and operating system internals - protecting AWS customers from the threats that target their compute and data.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Santa Monica - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually