Software Development Engineer, AWS GuardDuty

Amazon

Full-time other-general
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Location
Seattle, WA, United States
Posted
July 27, 2026

Job Description

Description
Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors, analyzes, and processes AWS data sources and logs to identify unexpected, potentially unauthorized, and malicious activity within customer AWS environments. GuardDuty combines machine learning, anomaly detection, and malicious file discovery, using both AWS and third-party sources to help protect workloads and data across AWS accounts.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join the GuardDuty team. In this role, you will design, build, and operate highly available, scalable distributed systems that power GuardDuty's billing and usage platform, metadata services, and runtime agent provisioning. You will work on challenging problems at the intersection of cloud security, distributed systems, and customer experience — building platforms that serve both internal teams and millions of external AWS customers.

You will be a hands-on engineer contributing to the full so...