Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon GuardDuty is a customer facing threat detection service that was built to protect applications and services running in AWS. The service processes trillions of events and applies advanced analytics and machine learning to detect threats. https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/

The Amazon GuardDuty team is looking for a strong software engineer to help build the future of the service. The team interacts with security researchers to codify security analytics into the service. The researchers use various Machine/Deep Learning algorithms to build new detections for the service. We are innovating new ways of building massively scalable and globally distributed security systems for assisting our customers with security and compliance. In this role, you will be responsible for architecting and developing core modules, design of new features in software applications, tools and services using object-oriented design, C, Rust. Diagnose and optimize performance bottlenecks in the system tied to the user of system resources like CPU, and Memory. Gather business and functional requirements from stakeholders, and translate requirements into technical specifications to build robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well between a range of complexity.

This position is on a new team that you will be joining at its inception and it will have a startup feel. You must enjoy working on complex software systems in a customer-centric environment and be passionate not only about building good software but also ensuring that the same software achieves its goals in operational reality. You will be responsible for the development end-to-end lifecycle, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation and testing, to documentation, delivery and maintenance. Provide design reviews for other engineers, including feedback on architecture and design issues, as well as integration, performance and scalability.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Most days, our entire team is co-located in the Seattle office, but were also flexible when people occasionally need to work from home. We generally keep core in-office hours from 10am to 4pm. About half of us come in earlier and the other half of us stay later.

On-Call Responsibility
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We dont like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we dont get paged for the same issue twice.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

B.S. in Computer Science, Math, or some other algorithmic-centric discipline
Demonstrated passion for building security products and services.
5+ years of professional experience with systems programming (multithreading, pipes, syscall monitoring, etc.) on Linux
5+ years of programming experience with C, C++ or Rust.
5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Strong low-level Linux Operating System fundamentals
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

M.S. in Computer Science, Math, or some other algorithmic-centric discipline
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
Experience building network security systems such as firewalls, unified threat management, and virtual private network technologies
Data-driven and quantitative mentality. Always backs up ideas with facts
Desire and energy to work in a fast-paced environment previous startup experience a plus
. Meets/exceeds Amazons leadership principles requirements for this role
. Meets/exceeds Amazons functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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