Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud platform that builds scalable security technologies to help customers protect their cloud workloads. The Security Engineering Manager will lead the GuardDuty security engineering team, develop novel threat detection solutions, and oversee detection value and coverage. The role collaborates with scientists and engineers across runtime, network, CloudTrail, and AI workload protection domains.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of security experts building novel detection solutions at AWS scale
- Own the security value of GuardDuty detections, leading operational reviews and prioritizing improvement opportunities
- Collaborate with science and engineering teams to deliver detections to production across runtime, network, CloudTrail, and AI protection domains
- Stay up to date with the ever changing cloud security and threat landscape, including emerging threats targeting agentic AI applications
- Work backwards from our customers to drive product roadmaps and detection coverage improvements
- Drive detection engineering best practices including attack simulation, security value evaluation, and coverage measurement
Skills
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 7+ years working in security research and engineering
- Experience with developing products
- Experience in one or more of cloud security, threat intelligence, malware detection, network security, and related fields
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- Experience in threat detection engineering, including writing detection rules and managing false positive/negative tradeoffs at scale
- Experience with runtime security, network traffic analysis, or AI/ML workload protection
- Experience managing a team implementing security solutions at the business division level or equivalent
- Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS frameworks
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Flexibility as part of our working culture
- Ongoing events and learning experiences
- Knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources
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