Software Developer Engineer II Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence

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 Amazons 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 Amazons security ecosystem.

As a Software Development Engineer within ACTI you will architect and lead the development of missioncritical distributed systems that power Amazons threat intelligence capabilities. You will make key technical decisions that shape our platforms architecture designing scalable solutions that process analyze and correlate vast amounts of security data across Amazons global infrastructure. Your technical leadership will directly influence ACTIs 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 ACTIs 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 serviceoriented 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
* Production incidents and being part of an oncall rotation

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5 years of noninternship professional software development experience
5 years of noninternship 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 serviceoriented architecture design patterns. Proven track record of leading technical projects and making architectural decisions. Strong proficiency in Python and Typescript. Experience building productiongrade applications
Experience with AWS services and cloudnative architectures. Demonstrated ability to optimize and scale data processing pipelines. Experience with monitoring troubleshooting and optimizing distributed systems

Experience developing webbased applications and/or web servicesbased 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 year 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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