Sr. Software Development Engineer, Denied Party Screening

Amazon is hiring a Sr. Software Development Engineer, Denied Party Screening in Seattle, United States. It pays $168k-$227k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

Builds AI ●●●● is how Level rates this software engineer role: the job is building AI systems.
Pay on this posting starts in line with the typical software engineer posting on Level.
The posting mentions AI agents, agentic AI and distributed systems among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a senior role.
Amazon has 20,000+ other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Design and scale agentic AI systems to detect and prevent prohibited transactions at Amazon scale.

ai-agentsagentic-aidistributed-systemssoftware-engineeringsecurity

Our mission is to prevent denied parties from transacting with Amazon businesses. We build automated mechanisms to detect and prevent prohibited transactions with the denied parties using a diverse set of algorithms and advanced agenticAI systems. We screen over a two and half a billion events every day, integrate with Tier 1 systems and deal with unique scaling and TPS challenges. We automate investigations using AI agents at scale. We are still day 1 and have an exciting road map to build world-class alert management and investigation framework to help scale Amazon for years to come.

We are looking for an outstanding senior software engineer who has the passion for working on challenging problems from the very early stages. Together with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, applied scientist, and subject domain experts, you will help define our customer experience and protect Amazon brand. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are technical and innovative, and looking for an opportunity to build systems and solutions optimized for relationships (or graph), we want to talk to you.

Key job responsibilities
- Design, development and maintenance of AgenticAI systems at scale
- Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software in rapid increments.
- Optimizing processes to run efficiently on large-scale computing resources.
- Working with software engineers and scientist to investigate design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
- Make strong data-driven architectural/design decisions while translating business requirements to technology architecture.

A day in the life
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?
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

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic qualifications

- 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

- 5+ 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, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Sr. Software Development Engineer, Denied Party Screening at Amazon rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● 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

Sr. Software Development Engineer, Denied Party Screening is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The listed salary is $168k-$227k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on September 18, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

Prepare for this job

Built from this posting and from similar jobs on Level.

Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI agentsAgentic AIDistributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringSecurity

Also common in software engineer jobs at this level

Python LLM C++Machine learning AWS Kubernetes

Pay

This job starts at: $168k
Typical software engineer job: $167k

This posting starts close to the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs

Questions you could be asked

How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
Tell me about a project where agentic ai 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 software engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where security was part of your work. What did you do?

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Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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