Software Development Engineer, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance, Denied Party Screening

Software Development Engineer, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance, Denied Party Screening

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our mission is to prevent "denied entities" from transacting with Amazon businesses. We build automatic mechanisms to detect and prevent prohibited transactions with the "denied entities" using a diverse set of algorithms and machine learning techniques. We screen over a billion events every day and deal with unique scaling and TPS challenges. We are still Day 1 and have an exciting road map to build detection and resolution systems to help scale Amazon for years to come.

We are looking for a software engineer who has the passion for working on challenging problems from the very early stages. Together with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, ML scientists, and subject domain experts, you will help define our customer experience and protect Amazon brand. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are technical and innovative, and looking for an opportunity to build systems and solutions optimized for relationships (or graph), we want to talk to you.

Key job responsibilities
As an SDE in this role, you are responsible for:

* Building large-scale, high-availability, low-latency distributed systems.
* You work with your team to design, implement, test, release and maintain high-complexity software.
* You propose new and innovative solutions that you then develop and refine for production.
* You are the end-to-end owner of critical components that keep Amazon and its businesses compliant.

A day in the life
You'll see hundreds of millions of transactions being screened on a daily basis.
You will hear about various critical Amazon Businesses (our clients) and about Amazon Legal, Compliance or Operations (our stakeholders).
You'll work with highly experienced and dedicated peers to deliver on critical tasks and then you'll see your work directly impact our customers and our stakeholders.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Experience Level

Mid Level