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Amazon · 17 hours ago

Software Development Engineer III - Threat Intelligence Systems, ACTI Engineering

New York, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$151K/yr - $262K/yr

5+ years exp

Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) organization is responsible for investigating and defending against cyber threats targeting Amazon's global businesses. The Software Development Engineer will lead the development of distributed systems that enhance Amazon's threat intelligence capabilities, making critical architectural decisions and influencing technical strategies.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Define and drive the technical vision and multi-year architecture roadmap for ACTI's threat intelligence platforms, establishing technical standards and best practices that influence organization-wide engineering decisions

Architect and lead the design of highly scalable distributed systems processing petabytes of security data, making strategic trade-offs between performance, cost, and operational complexity while ensuring long-term maintainability

Drive cross-team technical strategy for service-oriented architectures, establishing integration patterns and API contracts that enable seamless threat intelligence workflows across multiple organizations

Own critical technical decisions around data modeling, storage solutions, and processing frameworks with organization-level impact, evaluating emerging technologies and driving adoption of solutions that advance the state of the art

Lead the full software development lifecycle across multiple complex systems, establishing operational excellence standards, SLA definitions, and reliability practices that serve as models for the broader organization

Mentor and develop engineering talent across teams, conducting design reviews, establishing coding standards, and growing the technical capabilities of engineers at multiple levels

Partner with senior leadership and threat intelligence analysts to translate strategic business objectives into scalable technical solutions, influencing product roadmaps and organizational priorities

Build industry-leading, planet-scale intelligence tooling that sets the standard for defending against sophisticated and evolving security threats, with direct impact on Amazon's security posture

Lead resolution of issues and establish on-call best practices, driving improvements to system reliability and reducing operational burden across the organization

Influence technical direction beyond immediate team boundaries, contributing to architectural decisions and technical standards that impact multiple services and teams

Qualification

Software DevelopmentDistributed SystemsThreat IntelligenceC#C++JavaPerlSoftware ArchitectureCloud Development KitMentoringMalware AnalysisGraph DatabasesTeam Leadership

Required

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

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

3+ 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

US citizenship is required for this position

Preferred

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

2+ years experience with threat intelligence platforms (TIP) or graph databases and query languages

Deep knowledge of malware analysis systems and security automation

Expert at designing and implementing production-grade systems with Amazon Cloud Development Kit (CDK)