Software Development Engineer, Buyer Fraud Prevention

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, Buyer Fraud Prevention in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this software engineer role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting mentions Machine learning, Big Data and software development among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a mid-level role.
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AI in this role

Build scalable distributed systems and machine learning models to prevent ecommerce fraud and abuse. Framework: Level 3 (AI/ML models as part of core product/system capability).

Machine learningBig Data

software-developmentdistributed-systemsdata-mining

Want to join a team that saves tens of millions of dollars per year for Amazon, and uses technology, including machine learning and statistical modeling techniques, data mining and big data analytics, cloud computing services, and highly available/scalable distributed systems that support hundreds of millions of transactions across the globe? We have an exciting opportunity within the Abuse Prevention team to architect and build the next generation of engineering systems to address abuse of Amazon's customer-first policies that will impact multiple Amazon businesses across the globe.

About the Amazon Buyer Risk Prevention Team:

The BRP (Buyer Risk Prevention) team has a worldwide reputation as the #1 in eCommerce Fraud and Abuse Prevention. Trust and Safety of our customers comes first. Always! We thrive on maintaining the highest bar of customer experience while we deliver on those tenets. The Buyer Abuse Engineering Team, a group within BRP, strives to protect Amazon businesses exposed to customer abuse while maintaining the highest level of customer experience for our good customers. This means building highly sophisticated, data-centric systems that can detect abusive patterns across millions of transactions. We build highly scalable, flexible and distributed systems that utilize the power of data at every step - compute predictive variables, build models using machine learning algorithms and plug into different pipelines to prevent abusive transactions from taking place. As Amazon businesses grow and abusers morph to find new ways to take undue advantage of our liberal policies, our engineers and data scientists are constantly innovating to stay ahead of the game and protect Amazon and our customers.

Basic qualifications

- 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

Preferred qualifications

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

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How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, Buyer Fraud Prevention at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● 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

Software Development Engineer, Buyer Fraud Prevention is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in IN, KA, Bengaluru.
The job was posted on September 18, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Software DevelopmentDistributed SystemsData MiningMachine learningBig Data

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Pay

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