You'll design and build systems that process millions of events per second, develop machine learning-powered detection pipelines, and directly contribute to keeping AWS safe. Whether it's architecting a new real-time detection engine, optimizing our graph-based fraud network analysis, or hardening our registration fraud defenses your work will have immediate, measurable impact at AWS scale.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate highly scalable distributed systems to create backend services and serverless workflows that take actions where correctness directly protects AWS customers and revenue.
- Own features end to end: write design docs, implement in Java/TypeScript on Lambda, DynamoDB, and EventBridge, and ship through CDK-managed pipelines that deploy to 38+ commercial regions plus GovCloud and sovereign clouds.
- Write high-quality, production-ready code for services that must be available 24/7 with zero tolerance for downtime.
- Own the full lifecycle of your solutions - from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence.
- Build agentic and LLM-based automation that triages fraud signals and use AI developer tools daily.
- Learn from others, mentor teammates, and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with applied scientists to integrate machine learning models into real-time decisioning systems.
- Work in a fast-paced, agile environment where you're solving complex problems with direct, measurable impact on AWS security.
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
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, VA, Arlington - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually