Directory Service SDE: Scale, Security & Flexible Hours

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Directory Service team is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Seattle to design and build scalable identity infrastructure and services that handle millions of requests per second. You will contribute to control plane APIs, deployment orchestration, and reliability at cloud scale.

You will mentor engineers, participate in architecture discussions, and help shape monitoring and incident‑response tooling. A strong background in distributed systems and OO design is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for large scale systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer experience.
• 1+ years of designing multi‑tiered distributed software applications.
• 1+ years of OO design experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in CS, Engineering, Math, or related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software language.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core identity infrastructure components including APIs, data plane execution, and deployment orchestration.
• Design and implement scalable, highly available services.
• Develop monitoring, observability, and operational tooling for reliability and incident response.
• Contribute to architecture decisions for session management, identity/permissions, cross‑account access, and security integrations.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive engineering excellence through code reviews and best practices.

Skills

C#

C++

Java

Object Oriented Design

Design patterns

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Amazon's AWS Directory Service team is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Seattle to design and build scalable identity infrastructure and services that handle millions of requests per second. You will contribute to control plane APIs, deployment orchestration, and reliability at cloud scale.

You will mentor engineers, participate in architecture discussions, and help shape monitoring and incident‑response tooling. A strong background in distributed systems and OO design is essential.