Senior Software Dev Engineer, Core Services

Amazon is hiring a Senior Software Dev Engineer, Core Services in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this role Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
Tools and skills the posting cites include Gen AI Tools, software development and distributed systems.
Level classifies it as a senior role.
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AI in this role

Designs and builds internet-scale risk management and fraud prevention core services utilizing modern tools and AI concepts.

Gen AI Tools

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Amazon.com's Risk Management Team has a worldwide reputation as the #1 in eCommerce Fraud Prevention. Trust and Safety of our customers comes first. We thrive on maintaining the highest bar of customer experience while we maintain those tenets. Do you want to join a team that works on internet scale systems, uses cloud computing services, leverages State of The Art technologies and Gen AI tools?

The Core Services team owns the charter of evaluating bad actor risk of all kinds (Buyer, Seller, Brand, Vendor) across entities such as Orders, Returns, Sign-ins, Listings and any event that will be useful to evaluate risky behavior. We build self-service capabilities to experiment and launch new use cases while making it easy to on-board and manage existing ones all over the world. We are the gate keepers of customer trust by preventing bad actors from doing damage to good customers or scamming Amazon. The problems we solve will challenge the best in terms of scale (100s of billion evaluations) and latency (think milliseconds) while operating at the lowest cost

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will design, enhance and maintain mission critical systems leveraging best of breed technologies with AI first mindset. Successful candidates will be leaders who can identify high impact opportunities and create durable solutions that scale globally. This role requires expertise in technical leadership, strategic thinking, and a passion for mentoring others.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ 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

- 8+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery
- Problem-solving abilities with attention to detail
- Track record of thinking strategically, taking ownership, and diving deep into technical problems

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How we rate this

Senior Software Dev Engineer, Core Services at Amazon rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Senior Software Dev Engineer, Core Services is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The role is based in IN, KA, Bengaluru.
The job was posted on September 24, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Software DevelopmentDistributed SystemsSystem ArchitectureRisk ManagementGen AI Tools

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Tell me about a project where software development was part of your work. What did you do?
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Tell me about a project where risk management was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used Gen AI Tools in your day-to-day work.

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