Software Development II
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Design and maintain internet-scale fraud prevention microservices leveraging generative AI technologies.
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
As the 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 strong leaders who have a hunger to learn, are righteous owners, demonstrate superior deep dive and problem-solving skills, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery.
Key job responsibilities
1. Work on systems protecting millions of customers daily
2. Design, enhance and maintain various microservices that are part of risk evaluation systems
3. Improve onboarding and operating experience leveraging Gen AI technologies
4. Reduce time taken and cost of risk evaluation leveraging best of breed industry technologies
5. Participate in on-call rotation for critical systems
6. Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical approaches, meet timelines with optimal solutions
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Preferred qualifications
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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How we rate this
Software Development II 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.
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
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- Tell me about a project where software development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where system design was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where fraud prevention was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where risk management was part of your work. What did you do?
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- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project — this role expects it to be a running habit.
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