Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Engineer
Seattle, Washington, US
Role snapshot
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hiring a Software Engineer on a full-time basis. This is a role based in Seattle, Washington, US.
- Company
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, US
- Job type
- Full-time
- Posted
- Nov 1, 2026
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About the role
Job summary
Amazon GuardDuty is a customer facing threat detection service that was built to protect applications and services running in AWS. We are looking for software developement engineers with interest in building large scale distributed systems for security domain . In this role, you will be building distributed sytems using AI .
GuardDuty is a fast growing AWS Threat Detection service, that processes trillions of events, and applies advanced analytics and machine learning to detect threats and aggregate threat intelligence. If you are interested in learning about operating a threat detection service and working alongside world class engineers, then this role is for you.
The candidate is must have atleast 2+ years of designing and developing large-scale distributed software system.
The team interacts with applied scientist and security researchers to codify security analytics into the service. In this role, you will enjoy working on complex software systems in a customer-centric environment.
Why is it cooler at AWS and specifically GuardDuty
- We work on real-world security problems of cloud threat detection
- GuardDuty is one of the fast growing AWS services
- You will design and develop large scale distributed systems (latency, scale requirements)- terabytes of daily log data processing
- High Availability, Low Latency service - applications that processes streaming event at 100B every hour from EC2 machines, ECS, EKS hosts.
- Access to Mentorship - Principal Engineers, Senior Engineers, Security Engineers
- Apply Machine Learning in the security domain.