Ads Security Engineer - AI-Driven, Scalable

Amazon; Factoria (WA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Ads Security team seeks a seasoned Software Engineer to build security solutions that protect our Advertising products. You will contribute across the lifecycle, from design to operations, owning several products and leveraging AI to secure systems at scale.

The role requires strong communication, ability to work in ambiguity, and a track record of delivering robust software in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl
• Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals, including transformer architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques
• Experience building complex software systems delivered to customers

Responsibilities

• Drive the design, implementation and deployment of efficient, robust products to deliver access risk lifecycle management capabilities
• Adopt an iterative, continuous improvement approach to release and deploy product features
• Work in an agile environment, collaborate with peers on designs, technical refinements, code reviews, testing and customer issues
• Develop/adopt testing frameworks and implement test plans to improve code quality and facilitate continuous delivery
• Build reusable code patterns including APIs, libraries, SDKs
• Lead design reviews to ensure all software development efforts are tactically aligned
• Mentor fellow engineers and drive engineering excellence
• End-to-end ownership of several products in Ads Security
• Develop next generation products that leverage AI technologies
• Perform ad-hoc requests with end-to-end ownership including reporting metrics and narratives, on-call and other duties to support operations

Skills

Software development

Architectural design

Machine Learning

Communication skills

Education

Bachelors in CS/Engineering/Math

Foreign equivalent acceptable

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon’s Ads Security team seeks a seasoned Software Engineer to build security solutions that protect our Advertising products. You will contribute across the lifecycle, from design to operations, owning several products and leveraging AI to secure systems at scale.

The role requires strong communication, ability to work in ambiguity, and a track record of delivering robust software in a fast-paced environment.