System Development Engineer II, Payment Risk Engineering

Join Amazon's Payment Risk Engineering team where our mission is to preserve trust in Amazon with every customer, every transaction, every second. We identify and remove bad actors from the platform while maintaining a best-in-class customer experience. As a System Development Engineer II, you'll be part of a team handling massive scale operations serving hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. You'll work on preventing fraud using advanced machine learning and real-time decision making systems.

The role combines technical expertise with business impact, requiring strong skills in automation, infrastructure management, and system development. You'll collaborate with talented engineers across different specialties, developing frameworks for testing and maintaining critical payment systems. The position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology while directly contributing to Amazon's trust and safety initiatives.

The ideal candidate brings both technical depth and creative problem-solving abilities, with experience in modern programming languages, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD practices. You'll need to demonstrate strong ownership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to mentor other engineers. This role offers the chance to work on challenging problems at unprecedented scale while helping protect Amazon's customers and business integrity.

Working at Amazon, you'll be part of a team that values innovation, deep technical expertise, and customer obsession. The role provides opportunities for growth, learning from industry experts, and making significant contributions to one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms. If you're passionate about technical challenges, fraud prevention, and working at scale, this position offers an exciting opportunity to make a real impact.