Senior Software Dev Engineer, GuardDuty

Salary: $168,400 - 168,400 per year Requirements:

• We require 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• We require 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software language.
• We require 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• We are looking for experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
• Preferred: 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Preferred: A bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Preferred: Knowledge of data structures, algorithm design, statistics, and system design.
• Preferred: Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Preferred: Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop or Spark.
• Preferred: Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services.
• Preferred: Experience with security and systems that handle sensitive data.
• Preferred: Experience in machine learning and MLOps in production.
• Preferred: Experience in AI threat detection.

• We design, build, and operate large-scale distributed security detection systems.
• We extend GuardDuty into the AI Threat Detection domain by creating detections for emerging threats targeting AI models and generative AI applications.
• We collaborate with applied scientists and security researchers to turn research outcomes, including anomaly detection and LLM-based approaches, into scalable production systems.
• We drive the full software development lifecycle from scoping and planning through design, implementation, testing, documentation, deployment, and operational support.
• We conduct design and code reviews and provide feedback on architecture, scalability, performance, and integration.
• We work in a highly available, customer-facing environment with on-call duties and help build resilient systems that reduce operational burden.
• We participate in root cause analysis and long-term improvements to strengthen operational excellence and prevent recurring issues.

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Hadoop
• Support
• LLM
• Machine Learning
• MLOps
• Security
• Spark
• Web

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We are the Amazon GuardDuty team, building a customer-facing threat detection service that protects applications and services running on AWS using advanced analytics, machine learning, anomaly detection, and threat intelligence. This senior software engineering role offers the chance to work with applied scientists and security researchers on large-scale analytics systems and emerging AI Threat Detection capabilities focused on risks such as data poisoning, prompt injection, model exfiltration, and misuse of large language models. Our team values mentorship, knowledge sharing, and career growth, with supportive senior engineers and principals who provide thoughtful code reviews and one-on-one guidance. The role is based in Boston, MA, and includes comprehensive benefits such as health coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and sign-on payments and restricted stock units, with final compensation based on experience, qualifications, and location.

last updated 37 week of 2026