Software Development Engineer, CoRe Relations

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, CoRe Relations. It pays $144k-$194k a year and 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, Distributed Systems and software development among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a mid-level role.
Amazon has 21,000+ other open roles on Level.
Posted within the past week.

AI in this role

Builds large-scale machine learning and graph modeling systems for risk and fraud detection infrastructure.

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Amazon’s Risk Prevention organization constantly makes high judgment decisions across a wide breadth of constituents. We build and deliver services for Buyers, Sellers, Vendors and other customers. We ensure that Amazon is a safe and trustworthy place to shop and an amazing place to build a successful business selling products. We support our many partners in this journey. We face constant trade-offs and competing objectives that we need to appropriately balance. We have to do all of this at high scale which only happens through technology and science. You will be part of a team that uses technology including machine learning and graph modeling techniques, cloud computing services and highly available and scalable distributed systems that supports hundreds of millions of transactions across the globe. We are the Core Relations Engineering team in Risk and Fraud Detection organization. We provide highly effective, production ready relationship data insights (with transparency to audit, experiment, and enhance those insights) to allow teams across Amazon to make risk decisions. Our clients are the scientists, engineers, product managers, and investigators behind 45+ programs across Amazon. We provide all the necessary tools to engineer new features, explore graph-based insights, and detect risky relationships. Come join the best in class team of engineers, who are owners, and inventors. We are at the intersection of Machine Learning and Fraud Detection, while delivering customer impact at amazon scale. Interact with ML scientists on a daily basis, and build the services to beat to keep the bad guys out.

Key job responsibilities
Develop large scale, high performance, high reliability ML systems for data, feature, model and rule management. -
Work closely with ML scientists, understand the requirements, design and deliver innovative next-gen solutions to help preserve customer trust. Work as the owner of the system and operate excellent to provide stable and robust services to customers and other teams.
Innovate based on new ideas and build comprehensive system/features across the whole ML pipeline

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
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, AZ, Tempe - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, CoRe Relations at Amazon rates 70 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, CoRe Relations is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $144k-$194k a year.
The role is based in US, AZ, Tempe.
The job was posted on October 22, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Software DevelopmentDistributed SystemsMachine learningGraph Modeling

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Pay

This job starts at: $144k
Typical software engineer job: $168k

This posting starts 15% below the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs

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