Software Development Engineer, Suspicious Activity Monitoring

You have super powers. Use them for good. We catch bad guys and stop online fraud. Its fun. Its hard. It matters. We need you.

Amazons Financial Fraud team is engaged in a technological arms race: cyber-criminals from across the world continually look for new ways to steal from us and cover their tracks while we invent new techniques to detect and neutralize them with ever increasing speed and scale.

Its fun. We dont just catch the bad guys; we stop crimes before they happen. Remember the Minority Report Its just like that. Basically we predict the future by developing and applying cutting-edge machine learning systems to detect predict and prevent online fraud before it happens.
Its hard. This is Amazon so of course our services are low latency high throughput highly scalable and failure proof. Our fraud prevention systems are also highly reactive: we process multiple terabytes of data yet notice changes in individual behavior patterns in seconds. Even by Amazon standards our datasets are massive and our transaction rates impressive and everything is built with a scrupulous attention to security.
It matters. Amazon is one of the worlds most trusted companies. Consider the implications of losing that trust. Third-party sellers account for nearly half the items purchased on Amazon. This nearly always goes smoothly; but when sellers cheat buyers everyone loses. Even after we refund their money buyers are less likely to shop at Amazon in the future. Legitimate sellers lose potential sales and are less likely to sell on Amazon. And of course the money Amazon pays in refunds and chargebacks goes straight to our bottom line and ultimately results in higher prices for all our customers.

We are looking for a passionate and innovative Software Development Engineer to join a brand new small agile team of engineers who love solving hard problems focused on detecting and stopping bad actors.

Amazon is one of the worlds most trusted companies. Help us keep it that way.

About the team
Here at Selling Partner Services we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 14 employee-led affinity groups reaching 10000 employees in chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences including our DEI Ambassador Program. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.


- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.