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