Special Projects & Investigations, Threat Intelligence team (SPI-TI) is seeking a motivated Threat Intelligence Specialist with a strong investigative mindset and technical background. As a Threat Intelligence Specialist on SPI-TI, you will solve the most interesting and difficult fraud challenges faced by Amazon. Your technical skills will enable the program to detect, prevent and disrupt significant fraud threats and build intelligence solutions that scale. You will build proofs of concept and develop tooling/automation solutions that help Amazon scale.

A successful candidate will have a strong programming background and a passion for threat intelligence/investigations. They are an enthusiastic learner and insatiably curious. They have a demonstrated history of driving workable solutions, even in the face of resource limitations, as well as environmental, legal, and technical challenges. We seek a team player who prioritizes well, communicates clearly, and has a consistent track record of delivering results. You must be proactive in removing roadblocks, always looking for ways to innovate and operate more efficiently and be able to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You will need to influence internal and external stakeholders that are spread across the world.


Key job responsibilities
- Our partner teams have diverse responsibilities to research, investigate, and disrupt fraud. Your responsibility is to build mechanisms that enable us to collect intelligence, process it, and enable our partners to be more proactive by preventing fraud at each step of the fraud lifecycle.
- Apply your technical expertise to improve organizational awareness of cyber-crime tooling, infrastructure, and capabilities and how bad actors use them against Amazon Stores. Produce actionable threat intelligence that influences investigations, product, and external teams.
- Drive research into technical fraud problems, automate manual processes, and build tooling/automation that (1) improves team capabilities and (2) enables the program to scale.
- Identify, connect, and analyze new internal and external data sources and adapt them for programmatic use by the team. Optimize data processing and analysis pipelines to work at Amazon scale.
- Contribute to overall engineering efforts, including supporting design and development for capturing, storing, processing, analyzing and disseminating threat intelligence for awareness and action