Senior Software Development Engineer - Risk Systems

Amazon India Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon India's Risk Management Team is seeking a senior engineer with extensive experience in building scalable risk evaluation systems. You will design and maintain microservices that evaluate risk across orders, sign-ins, listings and more, while participating in on-call rotations for critical systems.

The role emphasizes leadership, cross-team collaboration with product management, and delivering durable solutions at internet scale, with a focus on speed and reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience.
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Work on systems protecting millions of customers daily
• Spot durable problems, opportunities to delight customers and work towards creating lasting impact
• Exceptional one-way door decision making skills, creating and delivering roadmaps
• Design, enhance and maintain various microservices that are part of risk evaluation systems
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical systems

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software engineering

Web services

Job description

SDM Risk Systems, SPS Core Services

Amazon.com's Risk Management Team has a worldwide reputation as the #1 in eCommerce Fraud Prevention. Trust and Safety of our customers comes first. We thrive on maintaining the highest bar of customer experience while we maintain those tenets. Do you want to join a team that works on internet scale systems, uses cutting edge cloud computing services, leverages State of The Art technologies and Gen AI tools? 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.

Key job responsibilities

• Work on systems protecting millions of customers daily
• Spot durable problems, opportunities to delight customers and work towards creating lasting impact
• Exceptional one-way door decision making skills, creating and delivering roadmaps
• Design, enhance and maintain various microservices that are part of risk evaluation systems
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical systems

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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Experience Level Senior Level