Software Development Engineer, Brand Protection

Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial, fast paced environment, solving complex technical problems and delivering innovative solutions using cutting edge Machine Learning at scale?

The Automated Brand Protection team aims to deliver a trusted and complete Buyerfacing catalog by helping Brands protect their intellectual property and accurately represent themselves on Amazon. We build large scale, low latency, high throughput, distributed software systems that identify, prevent and act on all forms of product listings abuse on the Amazon catalog. These systems will rely on data from our innovative, next-generation image processing and machine learning solutions.

As a Software Development Engineer on the team you will take ownership over the software design, documentation, development, delivery and continued support of machine learning systems built natively in AWS. In this role you will collaborate with leaders, work backwards from customers, identify problems, propose innovative solutions, relentlessly raise standards, and have a positive impact on hundreds of millions of customers.

A day in the life

About the hiring group

We are a multi-cultural and inclusive team who value diverse viewpoints and out of the box thinking. We take complete ownership of our systems, ensuring that the systems we design continue to perform optimally in production. We earn the trust of our business partners through transparency and open dialogue and have a say in how we serve brands through technology. We are also a fun loving team, regularly organizing team lunches and other social activities.

Job responsibilities

You will be responsible for:
- Designing and developing highly reliable and scalable distributed systems to deploy cutting edge machine learning models to identify product listing abuse in images.
- Working with your team members to investigate and design approaches, prototype new technology and evaluate technical feasibility.
- Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver quality software.
- Collaborating with Product and Program stakeholders to ensure we are appropriately protecting Intellectual Property and staying on top of emerging threats.
- Performing development and maintenance of key system features, and promptly attending to production issues.
- Driving software development best practices and engineering excellence within your team.
- Mentoring other engineers.

- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary for this position ranges from $114,800/year up to $191,800/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.