You’ve read the comics. You’ve watched the movies. You’ve always wanted to be a force for good over evil. Come build services to protect Amazon and its customers by keeping unwanted activity off Amazon’s platform. It is becoming much more important globally to prevent identity theft, financial fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing. We are building best in class, scalable screening services that execute sophisticated text matching and similarity solutions of Amazon accounts to public lists of bad actors. While the screening services have to cater to Amazon’s scale and business needs as any other service, it is also bound to high level of accuracy and precision. What makes this space more challenging and interesting is the balance that needs to be maintained with high degree of accuracy and growing false positive alerts. This is an excellent opportunity to leverage continuous learning from manual decisions for producing ongoing enhanced precision. In 2016, the Screening team is
We're looking for people with the following qualifications: · Outstanding expertise in Java and object-oriented design. · A solid understanding of relational databases and SQL. · A strong background in algorithms and data structures. · A focus on clean code and solid designs. · At least a bachelor degree in computer science or equivalent · The ability to work effectively under pressure in a dynamic environmentAlso highly desired: · A strong Linux (or UNIX) background. · Experience with machine learning techniques. · Experience with large-scale multi-tiered systems and service-oriented architecture