Description

　　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:

　　Design and implement complex security services for AWS.

　　Manage oncall once in 2 to 3 months for a week (which is very light for this team)

　　Provide mentorship to junior engineers

　　Support other team members in reviews

　　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.

　　We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

　　Seattle, WA, USA

　　Basic 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 software programming language

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

　　Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

　　Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

　　Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

　　Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

　　Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.