Software Development Engineer, GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty is a customer facing threat detection service that is built to protect applications and services running on AWS. The service applies data analytics to high volume service logs and employs techniques, such as machine learning and anomaly detection, to identify potential threats. We are looking to hire a software engineer for our Malware Detonation team. We are innovating new ways of building massively scalable and globally distributed security systems for assisting our customers with security and threat detection. The team interacts with reserachers and security engineers to build service in enriching the detection capability for AWS services and customers. The researchers use various Machine/Deep Learning algorithms to build new malware detection for the service.

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. This role is based out of Seattle office.

Key job responsibilities
Some of the key job responsibilites are:
1. Design and implement complex security services for AWS.
2. Manage oncall once in 2 to 3 months for a week (which is very light for this team)
3. Provide mentorship to junior engineers
4. Support other team members in reviews
7. Foster innovation and handle ambigous problem and turn them into opertunities.

About the team
GuardDuty is a threat detection service that detects unauthorized, malicious, or anomalous activity in a customer’s AWS environment. One of the key features of the service is its simplicity: You just turn it on and it goes to work to identify threats and anomalies. The service helps customers identify reconnaissance, suspicious access, stealthy discovery, attacks, and changes to security critical settings.