Threat Intelligence Platform Architect (SDEII)

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) 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 an ACTI engineer, you will own and architect critical threat intelligence components, design distributed

Qualifications

• 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

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
• Production incidents and being part of an on-call rotation

Skills

Python

Typescript

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

AWS CDK

Threat intelligence platforms (TIP)

Graph databases

Job description

Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) 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 an ACTI engineer, you will own and architect critical threat intelligence components, design distributed