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# Senior Security Engineer - Threat Intelligence...

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $178,400.0 - $226,700.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Java (Programming Language), Architectural Patterns, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Engineering, Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Software Architecture, Scala (Programming Language), Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Web Services, Scripting, Cyber Threat Analysis, Cybercrime, Data Pipelines, Programming Languages, Microservices
- **Published:** July 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000giazyt

## About the Role

* 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, 4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience

 - 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience

 - 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience

 - Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go

 - Experience (non-internship) in scripting, programming, and security code reviewing in a common programming language

 - Experience (non-internship) in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools

 - Experience working in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans

 - Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques

 - Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

 - Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent

 - Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services

## Description

The Amazon Cyber 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 Senior Security Engineer within ACTI Engineering, 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.

US citizenship is required for this position.

Key job responsibilities

 * Own and architect critical components of ACTI's threat intelligence platforms, making key technical decisions that impact system scalability, performance, and reliability

 * Design and implement distributed systems that process petabytes of security data

 * Lead the development of service-oriented architectures that integrate complex threat intelligence workflows

 * Drive technical decisions around data modeling, storage solutions, and processing frameworks

 * Own the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and operational excellence

 * Mentor junior engineers on system design, coding practices, and architectural patterns

 * Partner with threat intelligence analysts to translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions

 * Building some of the largest scale intelligence tooling on earth to defend against evolving security threats, At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores


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