Security Engineering Manager, Security Analytics and AI Research

About the role

Amazon Web Services is looking for an experienced Security Engineering Manager to join the Security Analytics and AI Research group within AWS Security Services. This group is entrusted with researching and developing core detection and machine learning algorithms for services such as AWS GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub. On this team, you will lead engineers to invent and implement innovative solutions for never-before-solved problems. If you have experience with information security and a passion for large scale threat detection systems, this will be an exciting opportunity. This is an advanced engineering team that is using novel techniques to help customers detect and respond to threats across their cloud workloads.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of security experts building novel detection solutions at AWS scale
• Own the security value of GuardDuty detections, leading operational reviews and prioritizing improvement opportunities
• Collaborate with science and engineering teams to deliver detections to production across runtime, network, CloudTrail, and AI protection domains
• Stay up to date with the ever changing cloud security and threat landscape, including emerging threats targeting agentic AI applications
• Work backwards from our customers to drive product roadmaps and detection coverage improvements
• Drive detection engineering best practices including attack simulation, security value evaluation, and coverage measurement

About the team

The AWS Security Services team builds technologies that help customers strengthen their security posture and better meet security requirements in the AWS Cloud. We are building massively scalable and globally distributed security systems to power next generation services.

Security Analytics and AI Research (SAAR) The AWS SAAR team's mission is to provide security value to our customers by inventing and innovating at the intersection of information security and AI. We aim to bridge the gap between information security and AI by bringing together domain expertise from both sides. Our solutions reach to our customers through various AWS Security Services. We are a group of AI researchers and security engineers under AWS Security Services focusing on information security problems. We come from different backgrounds and we all have passion for security. We often work on never-before-solved problems and strive for advancing the state of the art.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 7+ years working in security research and engineering
• Experience with developing products
• Experience in one or more of cloud security, threat intelligence, malware detection, network security, and related fields