Security Engineering Manager, Security Analytics and AI Research

Amazon
Seattle, WA, USA2026-05-22ONSITE

About the job

Amazon Web Services is looking for an experienced Security Engineering Manager to join the Security Analytics and AI Research group within AWS Security Services. This group is entrusted with researching and developing core detection and machine learning algorithms for services such as AWS GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub. On this team, you will lead engineers to invent and implement innovative solutions for never-before-solved problems. If you have experience with information security and a passion for large scale threat detection systems, this will be an exciting opportunity. This is an advanced engineering team that is using novel techniques to help customers detect and respond to threats across their cloud workloads.

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

Qualifications

Minimum

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

Preferred

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