Software Developer Engineer II, ACTI

$129,300 - $223,600/Yr

Amazon - Herndon, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Herndon, VA

10,001+ employees

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About the position

The Software Developer Engineer II position within the Amazon Security Threat Intelligence (ACTI) organization focuses on enhancing threat intelligence operations through automation and the development of modern data pipelines. The role involves collaborating with internal teams to understand threat intelligence investigations and building resilient solutions to support security missions across Amazon and its customers.

Responsibilities

• Using Python to automate tasks and manipulate data
• Using SQL, EMR and data manipulation libraries such as Spark or Pandas
• Understanding concepts related to scaling out processing via the use of instrumentation capabilities such as Step Functions, Airflow or other AWS services
• Creating data pipelines
• Collaborate on developing, implementing, and maintaining our threat intelligence platform and malware analysis systems
• Collect data from intelligence communities, threat intelligence platforms, open source data repositories, and other sources
• Write automation to aid threat intel platform and data pipelines
• Demonstrate practical knowledge of managing threat data in support of our missions
• Utilize Vertex Synapse and storm query language

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing web-based applications and/or web services-based applications
• Minimum 5 years of experience using Python, and either TypeScript with AWS CDK, or infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
• Minimum of 1 year experience using Git
• Minimum of 2 year experience developing for Linux OS (or developing on macOS)
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and arrangements
• Training and career growth opportunities
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Work-life harmony support