The Software Development Engineer II role on the Bot Management team focuses on designing, building, and operating a machine learning platform for real-time bot detection. This team is part of Amazon's Traffic Engineering organization, which aims to maintain platform safety and reliability. The position involves taking research models into production and continuously improving detection accuracy and system performance. The ideal candidate will work on high-scale problems that directly protect customers and the integrity of the platform.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals
• Knowledge of ML frameworks including JAX, PyTorch, and TensorRT

• Design, build, and operate production ML platform components for real-time bot detection.
• Write high-quality, maintainable code and participate in code reviews.
• Partner with Applied Scientists to operationalize research models into reliable production systems.
• Identify root causes of operational issues and implement permanent fixes.
• Collaborate across Traffic Engineering and related teams to align technical solutions with platform-wide requirements.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.