Software Development Manager, AWS Payments & Fraud Prevention

Amazon

Location
Seattle, Washington, USA
Salary range
USD $184,900 – $250,200 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Manager
Job family
Investigations
Posted
4 weeks ago

The T&S Network estimates this role to be M3, Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $130k to $200k at an employer this size in Seattle. Key skills at this level: runs an investigation end to end, from signal to enforcement to writeup, builds and maintains the tradecraft others on the team follow, and works law enforcement and external referral pathways correctly.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · the title reads as M3 · asks for 8+ years · posts $185k to $250k base at a company over 5,000 in Seattle · sets strategy beyond one team.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from Amazon's posting.

Leads a data ingestion and intelligence team building real-time fraud detection for AWS Payments, covering registration through the full customer lifecycle. The team processes billions of signals daily to stop fraud, abuse and account compromise at AWS scale.

What you'd do

  • Own and operate a data ingestion platform handling over 18 billion events per day, enriched in near real time.
  • Lead design and upkeep of Apache Flink pipelines for aggregation, anomaly detection and usage pattern analysis.
  • Build a graph store holding millions of nodes and edges that maps how accounts connect.
  • Keep data vending APIs running at over 4,500 TPS with high availability and scalability as demand grows.
  • Run day-to-day team operations including sprint planning, design reviews, operational excellence and on-call management.
  • Set and execute the team's multi-year technical strategy tied to business and security needs.
  • Work with Applied Scientists to deliver data products for faster fraud and account compromise detection.

What it asks for

  • Three or more years managing an engineering team.
  • Seven or more years working hands-on inside engineering teams.
  • 3+ years designing or architecting new and existing systems for reliability and scale.
  • 8+ years leading definition and development of multi-tier web services.
  • Knowledge of full development lifecycle practices, including code review, testing, and livesite operations.
  • Working alongside product or program managers on delivery.
  • Experience communicating with users, technical teams and senior leadership on requirements and product strategy (preferred).

Worth knowing

  • On-call management responsibilities for the team.

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