Software Development Engineer II, 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.