SDE, Tier-0 Credential Distribution & IAM Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (medical, dental, and

RSUs

Sign-on payments

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, and operate a tier-0 credential distribution system that serves every service team across AWS infrastructure.

You will own system reliability, security, and scalability, drive automation and incident response, and collaborate with partner teams to migrate credentials while raising engineering quality through reviews and documentation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for systems.
• 1+ years of SDE or related experience.
• 1+ years of designing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software.
• 1+ years of OO design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in CS/Engineering/Math.
• Experience programming with at least one language.
• 3+ years of full SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate a tier-0 credential distribution system serving every service team across AWS infrastructure
• Own and improve reliability, scalability, and security — identify risks and build preventive mechanisms
• Work backwards from internal customers to simplify credential management with seamless tooling
• Drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring, and runbooks to reduce toil
• Collaborate with partner teams across Amazon to drive credential migration and adoption goals
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex distributed systems issues across stack layers
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response and RCA
• Contribute to system design and architecture decisions for long-term scalability
• Leverage AI tooling to improve engineering productivity and automate workflows
• Raise the bar for engineering quality through code reviews and documentation

Skills

Software development experience

System design

SDE experience

Distributed systems

OO design

Programming languages

SDLC experience

Computer science degree

Education

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in CS/Engineering/Math

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking an experienced software engineer to design, build, and operate a tier-0 credential distribution system that serves every service team across AWS infrastructure.

You will own system reliability, security, and scalability, drive automation and incident response, and collaborate with partner teams to migrate credentials while raising engineering quality through reviews and documentation.