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Sr. Software Development Engineer, AWS Fraud Prevention Engineering Team

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Arlington, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/23/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/20/2025
Description

AWS Fraud Prevention is responsible for protecting AWS and its customers from the costs, inconvenience, and damage associated with fraud (e.g. financial loss, service unavailability). We are responsible for preventing fraudulent access to AWS via the sign-up process, detecting fraudulent or compromised accounts by monitoring behaviors, containing risky accounts by limiting access to service resources, investigating suspicious accounts, and remediating fraud by partnering with AWS service teams to clean up fraudulent resources and recover capacity. We are looking for a motivated and experienced Software Development Engineer who wants to challenge themselves by building solutions using the latest tech in distributed systems at scale to catch the bad actors who are out there. We are at the forefront of protecting AWS (i.e. all AWS services) and its customers from fraud and compromise attacks. To prevent fraud, we are building our next generation Fraud Prevention Platform that is extensible, configurable and massively scalable. You will work closely with machine learning research scientists to design next generation fraud and compromise prevention systems utilizing the state of the art in machine learning, streaming data processing and aggregation, graph databases and serverless solutions. Your work will have a direct impact on AWS cloud products and all our customers. You will work in a quickly evolving environment in a business that needs to rapidly adapt to changing fraud patterns. Our low operational load combined with complicated technical and business problems will provide opportunities to satisfy your curiosity and support professional growth. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about our team members career plans and strive to assign projects that help them learn and grow professionally.

Key job responsibilities

As a senior SDE, you will operate as a technical leader within the team and will own a large part of the overall architecture. You will also influence the technical direction of your team and will serve as a guide and mentor to the junior engineers. This is a great opportunity to tackle some very interesting and complex problems, innovate in the space and drive product direction. The ability to communicate clearly and concisely (both written and orally) and work well in a team are key competencies. A successful candidate will have an extensive background in building highly scalable, highly available services, strong technical skills, a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment, high creativity, and great analytical reasoning skills. If you enjoy cutting through ambiguity, creating strategic paths and obsessing over efficiency - this opportunity will be a good fit.

Internal Job Description

About the team

Utility Computing (UC)

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Diverse Experiences

AWS 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.

About AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship & 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

  • 6 years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 6 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 6 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

  • 6 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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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.


Company - Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Job ID: A2859155

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