Description

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.

Countries across the globe maintain lists of entities known to be related to acts of terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering or other illegal activities. Conducting business with them is highly prohibited; failure to comply may end up in fines of hundreds of millions of dollars, reputational harm or even termination of activity.

Denied Party Screening group is Amazon's main defense mechanism against unwillingly conducting business with such sanctioned entities. We build highly-scalable, low-latency, Machine Learning based systems and algorithms which are integrated in critical areas of business for Amazon and used to detect and prevent prohibited transactions. Our goal is to ensure that every transaction happening inside Amazon is compliant with strict governmental regulations.

We are looking for Software Development Engineers (SDEs) with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, to join us and participate in the full development life-cycle of this mission critical system that screens customers at every point of interaction with Amazon and its various businesses and products.

As an SDE in our team you will have the opportunity to use cutting edge technologies to develop large-scale, high-availability, low-latency distributed systems, based on Cloud Computing and Machine Learning.

As we are building towards achieving our vision, you will have many opportunities to learn new stuff and develop new skills as you work with your teammates to build and innovate.

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
You'll be joining a team of highly dedicated engineers, all working to innovate in our space.
The team is a healthy mix of senior engineers (who will help you understand and deal with complicated concepts and scenarios) and juniors (with whom you can team up to create competitive environments and learn stuff faster, in a more engaging manner).

We're all dedicated to the goal of ensuring Amazon's transaction security, and we innovate in this space to keep ourselves on the bleeding edge of technology.

Basic qualifications

- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Good written and verbal English communication skills.
- Deep understanding / hands-on experience modern with object-oriented design and data structures;

Preferred qualifications

- Bachelor's 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
- Experience with secure systems and architecting applications that deal with sensitive information.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.