Identity Systems SDE: Scale & Security

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Identity team seeks a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate distributed identity systems that handle authentication and authorization at scale.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and deliver reliable services that process millions of requests per second, balancing security and a great customer experience, with opportunities to impact access control across AWS resources. The role is based in Seattle, WA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

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

Mentoring

Architecture leadership

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Job description

Amazon's AWS Identity team seeks a Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate distributed identity systems that handle authentication and authorization at scale.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and deliver reliable services that process millions of requests per second, balancing security and a great customer experience, with opportunities to impact access control across AWS resources. The role is based in Seattle, WA.