Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS GuardDuty
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 11, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship system design or architecture experience. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates GuardDuty’s distributed platforms for billing and usage, metadata enrichment, and runtime agent provisioning and coverage.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain scalable, highly available distributed systems and services.
- Own features through design, implementation, deployment, and operations, including troubleshooting production issues.
- Collaborate across teams, review code and designs, mentor engineers, and support operational excellence.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in system design or architecture, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Programming experience in at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent; experience contributing to the architecture and design of new and existing systems.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or equivalent.
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, C#
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