Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS GuardDuty
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 11, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of SDE or related occupational experience; 1+ years of large-scale software development and 1+ years of Object Oriented Design. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develops and operates large-scale AWS security services that use analytics and machine learning to detect threats.
What you'll do
- Design and implement complex security services for AWS.
- Participate in on-call rotations, mentor junior engineers, and support code reviews.
- Turn ambiguous problems into opportunities and foster innovation.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience, including 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience and programming experience in at least one software language.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl
AI focus
Applies machine learning and advanced analytics to detect security threats and aggregate threat intelligence.
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