Cloud WAF & Fraud Prevention Engineer — Global, Low Latency

Amazon; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSU program

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Software Development Engineer to help design, build, and operate globally scaled microservices for AWS WAF across Regions and edge locations. You will process millions of requests with sub‑millisecond latency while ensuring high availability and robust security, owning per‑request rule processing for CloudFront, API Gateway, and ALB, and guiding architecture for new features.

Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including software, hardware, and network engineers, and engage

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.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered, multi‑threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Building globally‑scaled microservices across AWS Regions and CloudFront edge locations
• Processing millions of requests with single‑digit millisecond latency
• Designing highly available systems that never compromise on security
• Owning the complete customer experience and per‑request rule processing for CloudFront, API Gateway, and ALB
• Lead design and architecture decisions for new features and services
• Research and innovate solutions in uncharted problem spaces
• Interact directly with customers to gather requirements and validate solutions
• Build, test, deploy, and operationally support production systems
• Influence the technical direction of AWS WAF and future security services

Skills

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Object Oriented Design

Distributed Systems

Software Design Patterns

API Development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Amazon seeks a Software Development Engineer to help design, build, and operate globally scaled microservices for AWS WAF across Regions and edge locations. You will process millions of requests with sub‑millisecond latency while ensuring high availability and robust security, owning per‑request rule processing for CloudFront, API Gateway, and ALB, and guiding architecture for new features.

Collaborate with cross‑functional teams including software, hardware, and network engineers, and engage