Software Development Engineer III - Threat Intelligence Systems, ACTI Engineering

Amazon • Austin, TX

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About The Position

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 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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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)

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.

Benefits

• Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
• For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed