Software Development Manager, Real-Time Fraud Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a software development manager to lead the AWS Payments & Fraud Prevention data ingestion and real-time intelligence teams. You will own scalable ingestion, graph-based models, and collaboration with Applied Scientists to detect and prevent fraud at global scale.

You will guide sprint planning, architecture reviews, and on-call operations, delivering high-impact data products to protect AWS customers and partners.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate a large-scale data ingestion platform processing 18+ billion events per day, ensuring data is ingested, enriched, and transformed in near real-time to power fraud detection and prevention across the organization.
• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of real-time intelligence pipelines using Apache Flink for data aggregation, anomaly detection, and usage pattern analysis.
• Drive the development of a graph database of millions of nodes and edges to model account relationships and surface fraud signals.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability of all platform services, including data vending APIs operating at 4,500+ TPS, as business demands and the AWS customer base grow.
• Own day-to-day team operations, including sprint planning, technical design reviews, operational excellence, and on-call management.
• Plan and execute the team's multi-year technical strategy, aligning platform capabilities with evolving business and security needs.
• Collaborate closely with Applied Scientists to identify and deliver the data products they need to detect and prevent fraud and account compromise faster.
• Serve as a technical leader with hands‑on depth, diving deep with SDEs to review architectures, and resolve platform issues.
• Ensure platform services meet the needs of all downstream engineering and data science teams across the organization who depend on this team's products.

Skills

Team management

System design/architecture

Multi-tier web services

SDLC practices

Product management collaboration

Tools

Apache Flink

Graph database

AWS Neptune

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a software development manager to lead the AWS Payments & Fraud Prevention data ingestion and real-time intelligence teams. You will own scalable ingestion, graph-based models, and collaboration with Applied Scientists to detect and prevent fraud at global scale.

You will guide sprint planning, architecture reviews, and on-call operations, delivering high-impact data products to protect AWS customers and partners.