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Software Developer Engineer II, Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence

Job ID: 2897028 | Amazon.com Services LLC

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA

The Amazon Security Threat Intelligence (ACTI) organization is responsible for investigating, analyzing, and defending against sophisticated cyber threats targeting Amazon's global businesses and customers. ACTI combines technical expertise, strategic analysis, and advanced tooling to identify emerging threats, track adversary activities, and provide actionable intelligence across Amazon's security ecosystem.

As a Software Development Engineer within ACTI, you will architect and lead the development of mission-critical distributed systems that power Amazon's threat intelligence capabilities. You will make key technical decisions that shape our platform's architecture, designing scalable solutions that process, analyze, and correlate vast amounts of security data across Amazon's global infrastructure. Your technical leadership will directly influence ACTI's ability to detect, analyze, and respond to emerging security threats at scale.

Key job responsibilities

1. Own and architect critical components of ACTI's threat intelligence platforms, making key technical decisions that impact system scalability, performance, and reliability.
2. Design and implement distributed systems that process petabytes of security data.
3. Lead the development of service-oriented architectures that integrate complex threat intelligence workflows.
4. Drive technical decisions around data modeling, storage solutions, and processing frameworks.
5. Own the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and operational excellence.
6. Mentor junior engineers on system design, coding practices, and architectural patterns.
7. Partner with threat intelligence analysts to translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions.
8. Build some of the largest scale intelligence tooling on earth to defend against evolving security threats.
9. Manage production incidents and participate in an on-call rotation.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
- Strong experience designing and implementing distributed systems at scale. Deep expertise in service-oriented architecture design patterns. Proven track record of leading technical projects and making architectural decisions. Strong proficiency in Python and Typescript. Experience building production-grade applications.
- Experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures. Demonstrated ability to optimize and scale data processing pipelines. Experience with monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing distributed systems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience developing web-based applications and/or web services-based applications.
- Minimum 5 years of experience using Python, and either TypeScript with AWS CDK, or infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, to automate tasks and manipulate data.
- Minimum of 1 year experience using Git.
- Minimum of 2 years experience developing for Linux OS (or developing on macOS).
- Collaborate on developing, implementing, and maintaining our threat intelligence platform and related tooling as it pertains to malware, malware analysis, and malware handling systems.

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