Software Development Engineer, AWS GuardDuty

About the role

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. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join the GuardDuty team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain highly available, scalable distributed systems for GuardDuty's billing and usage platform
• Build and operate metadata services that enrich data and provide internal GuardDuty teams with the context they need to build better detections and customer experiences
• 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
• Write high-quality, testable code and participate in design and code reviews
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, driving root cause analysis and operational excellence
• Collaborate with security engineers, applied scientists, and product managers to define technical solutions
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team-wide engineering best practices
• Contribute to operational excellence through on-call rotations, runbook development, and system monitoring

Qualifications

• 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
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Benefits

Amazon 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.