Have you ever thought about what it takes to detect and prevent fraudulent purchases among hundreds of millions of ecommerce transactions in six countries? What would you do to create a trusted marketplace where millions of buyers and sellers can safely transact online? What kinds of processes and systems would you build to maximize customer satisfaction?
Our mission in Payments Risk is to make Amazon.com the safest place to shop online. The Payments Risk team safeguards the order pipelines; monitoring, tracking, and managing risk to ensure long-term buyer satisfaction. The Payments Risk group designs and builds the software systems, risk models and operational processes that minimize risk and maximize trust in Amazon.com. In addition to this, we evaluate new business opportunities from across the company to determine how we can minimize the risk associated with these launches.

About the role:
We’re looking for a SDE with an interest in fraud prevention to help outwit the bad actors. They will be highly impactful with their overall operational excellence influence for the organization. They will work closely with a talented tech team of Software Development Engineers (SDEs) to understand features and technical implementation, develop robust automation solutions that enhances the team's ability to continuously deliver value to our customers. They will innovate with solutions that decreases the overall maintenance and operational overhead of our software systems. If you like creating applications to solve technically complex problems, working directly with your customers and making hard operational tasks easy, this is the job for you!

Key job responsibilities
Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.