Sr. Software Development Engineer, Abuse Prevention, Devices and Services Security
Austin, TX - USA
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Job Summary
In this role you will design and implement scalable backend services on AWS that protect millions of Amazon devices (e.g. Echo Fire TV) from emerging security threats. You will build robust high-throughput services for data collection real-time threat monitoring and automated abuse detection processing large volumes of device telemetry to identify and neutralize malicious activity. Using a defense-in-depth approach you will develop detection pipelines and security analyzers that identify threats such as malware privilege escalation and anomalous device behavior.
To further innovate you will harness machine learning techniques including supervised/unsupervised learning model optimization and LLM-based approaches to detect and classify malicious patterns at scale. You will also build complex data pipelines and automated workflows to support continuous analysis and rapid response.
Familiarity with Android and embedded Linux platforms is a significant plus as your services will directly interface with and protect these devices.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment have a passion for security innovation and hold yourself to the highest standards for software engineering this role offers the opportunity to build critical infrastructure that safeguards the security and trust of millions of customers.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Why Amazon Security
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experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud devices retail entertainment healthcare operations and physical stores.
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Work/Life Balance
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- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related fields
- 5 years of professional software development experience with a strong focus on building and operating scalable high-availability backend services
- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Experience designing building operating and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services
- Experience designing services for high throughput and low latency at scale including data pipelines and real-time analytics (streaming batch processing)
- Familiarity with Android embedded Linux and experience in C/C
- Experience with security engineering abuse detection or threat monitoring systems including ML/AI techniques applied to detection or classification problems
- Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices with operational excellence practices (monitoring alarming on-call ownership)
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