Software Development Engineer II - Threat...

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 Software Development Engineer within ACTI Engineering, you will architect and contribute to 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.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.

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.

• 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, 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience

• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with threat intelligence platforms (TIP) or graph databases and query languages

• Knowledge of malware analysis systems and security automation

• Experience designing and implementing production-grade systems with Amazon Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

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Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve., The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, MD, Annapolis Junction - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Herndon - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually