Software Development Engineer, Fraud Reduction Enforcement Systems and Controls in Advertising (FRESCA)

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we work to improve Amazon performance for brand advertisers by providing them with actionable retailads analytics. We also deliver retailads information services enabling Amazon partner teams to provide brands with automated campaign management experiences.

You will be working on building out our Fraud and Verification system. You will be become an expert in AWS Cloud and Big Data technologies to coming up with innovative solutions to restrict abusive actors while maintaining friction-free advertising for good customers.

You will build Tier-1 services to handle millions of requests per day parse through billions of records while maintaining response latencies in the milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements (high operational standards). You will develop distributed solutions with service oriented architecture to build high performance platforms to service worlds largest selection to millions of customers. Our systems and algorithms operate on massive datasets using distributed this role you will be design new and rebuild existing solutions for the fast growing scale of the next generation of advertising services. You will have the opportunity to work with Principal engineers and to mentor and grow junior engineers.

You will not merely go through the full software development cycle but more importantly drive appropriate technology choices for the business lead the way for continuous innovation and shape the future of e-commerce.

We are a highly motivated collaborative and fun-loving team building a high growth business. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of the Amazon vision in the Advertising business.

A successful candidate will have the satisfaction of seeing their work on the website and numerous other websites where it will be viewed by tens of millions of customers and will drive quantifiable revenue impact broaden their technical skills and work in an environment that thrives on creativity experimentation and product innovation. A role with direct impact on the success of advertising at Amazon.

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About the team
Amazon Ads operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising offering a rich array of digital advertising solutions to help our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. The Advertising Fraud and Abuse programs mission is to defend against bad actors who intend to cause advertisers or Amazon financial or reputational harm. We work to deliver across three strategic pillars: 1) Prevention proactive controls to prevent bad actors from entering our Advertising platforms; 2) Mitigation model and systems detection and ongoing monitoring to detect fraudulent or abusive behaviors detection and enforcement.

- 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

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 158100.00 - 213800.00 USD annually