Identity Systems Engineer: Scale, Security & Access

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the AWS Identity team in Seattle, WA. You will design, build, and operate distributed systems that handle authentication and authorization at scale.

This role focuses on secure, scalable identity infrastructure within AWS and customer access management. You will tackle challenges at the intersection of security, reliability, and customer experience, mentoring engineers and contributing to architecture discussions for identity and access.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core identity infrastructure components including control plane APIs, data plane execution environments, and deployment orchestration systems.
• Design and implement scalable, highly available services that process millions of requests per second.
• Develop monitoring, observability, and operational tooling to ensure production reliability and enable rapid incident response.
• Contribute to technical strategy and architecture decisions for session management, identity/permissions, cross-account access, and security integrations.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and operational best practices.

Skills

Distributed systems

Mentorship

Code reviews

Security integrations

Scalability design

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the AWS Identity team in Seattle, WA. You will design, build, and operate distributed systems that handle authentication and authorization at scale.

This role focuses on secure, scalable identity infrastructure within AWS and customer access management. You will tackle challenges at the intersection of security, reliability, and customer experience, mentoring engineers and contributing to architecture discussions for identity and access.