Software Development Engineer, AWS Payments & Fraud Prevention

Amazon

Location
Seattle, Washington, USA
Salary range
USD $143,700 – $194,400 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Individual contributor
Job family
Engineering
Posted
6 weeks ago

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $130k to $190k at an employer this size in Seattle. Key skills at this level: builds and ships detection or enforcement systems in production, evaluates a classifier on the metric that matches the harm, not on accuracy, and works with labeled data of uneven and adversarial quality.

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Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 3+ years · an early-career or graduate seat · posts $144k to $194k base at a company over 5,000 in Seattle · the title reads as P2.

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The role, in T&S terms

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Engineering work on real-time fraud and abuse detection for AWS Payments & Fraud Prevention, stopping bad actors from account registration through the whole customer lifecycle. The team builds scalable streaming systems, graph-based fraud network analysis and machine learning detection that protect AWS and its customers at global scale.

What you'd do

  • Build and run distributed platforms that handle millions of events each second while keeping delays minimal.
  • Build real-time fraud detection pipelines on Apache Flink for stream processing, aggregation and anomaly detection.
  • Map graph data in AWS Neptune to surface concealed links and track down fraud rings.
  • Integrate machine learning models with applied scientists into real-time decisioning systems.
  • Write production code for services that must stay available around the clock.
  • Own solutions end to end, including deployment, monitoring and operational upkeep.
  • Harden registration fraud defenses against bad actors.

What it asks for

  • At least 3 years of paid professional software development work outside internships.
  • At least 2 years of outside-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, covering design patterns, reliability and scaling.
  • At least 1 year working as a software development engineer or in a closely related role.
  • At least 1 year designing large-scale multi-tiered, multi-threaded or distributed systems in C#, C++, Java or Perl.
  • At least 1 year of object-oriented design experience.
  • 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including code reviews, source control, build, testing and operations (preferred).

Worth knowing

  • Service availability expectations are 24/7 with zero tolerance for downtime.

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