Senior Software Development Engineer, Denied Party Screening

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our mission is to prevent "denied entities" from transacting with Amazon businesses. We build automatic mechanisms to detect and prevent prohibited transactions with the "denied entities" using a diverse set of algorithms and machine learning techniques. We screen over a billion events every day and deal with unique scaling and TPS challenges. We are still Day 1 and have an exciting road map to build detection and resolution systems to help scale Amazon for years to come.

Our mission is to prevent denied entities from transacting with Amazon businesses. We build automatic mechanisms to detect and prevent prohibited transactions with the denied entities using a diverse set of algorithms. We screen over a half a billion events every day, integrate with Tier 1 systems and deal with unique scaling and TPS challenges. We are still day 1 and have an exciting road map to help scale Amazon for years to come.

We are looking for an outstanding software engineer who has the passion for working on challenging problems from the very early stages. Together with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, 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 and are technical and innovative, we want to talk to you.
We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to invent the future.

About the team
About 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.

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.

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.

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.

Mentorship and 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. - 5+ 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