Amazon
Security Engineering Manager, Security Analytics and AI Research
$175K–$237K
Seattle, WA · Manager · Full-time · Posted May 22, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of engineering team management; 7+ years working in security research and engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Leads the GuardDuty security engineering team, developing and improving large-scale threat detections across cloud and AI workload domains.
What you'll do
- Lead and develop a team building security detection solutions; own GuardDuty detection value and prioritize improvements.
- Partner with science and engineering teams to deliver detections across runtime, network, CloudTrail, and AI protection domains.
- Improve detection coverage and quality through operational reviews, attack simulation, and measurement of security value.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 7+ years working in security research and engineering.
- Experience developing products and in one or more of cloud security, threat intelligence, malware detection, network security, and related fields.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS products and services.
- Experience in threat detection engineering, runtime security, network traffic analysis, AI/ML workload protection, or familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS frameworks.
Pay
175,100.00 - 236,900.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, CloudTrail, MITRE ATT&CK, ATLAS
AI focus
Develops machine learning and anomaly-based threat detections, including AI workload protection, and addresses emerging threats targeting agentic AI applications.
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