Senior Access-Control Software Engineer

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate authorization policies, enforcement plane, and audit systems for Amazon Quick. You will collaborate with many partner teams, influence architecture, and coach engineers to raise quality in security-critical, scalable systems.

The role emphasizes mentoring, architecture leadership, and hands-on development across the access-control stack, with a focus on enterprise-readiness for large customers

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 of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement authorization policies, enforcement mechanisms, and audit pipelines that ensure every human and agent interaction in Amazon Quick is governed by a correct, enforceable access decision.
• Lead the architecture of distributed access-control systems, balancing scalability, security, and maintainability while identifying and resolving risks before they reach production.
• Collaborate with partner teams across the Amazon Quick organization to align on integration points, define service contracts, and ensure access controls keep pace with new agentic capabilities.
• Evaluate and integrate generative AI tooling into development workflows where it accelerates delivery, and apply responsible practices when reviewing AI-generated outputs.
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team through code reviews, design guidance, and technical coaching, raising the quality bar for the team's software practices.

Skills

5+ years software development

Programming experience

Leadership/design experience

Mentoring/tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate authorization policies, enforcement plane, and audit systems for Amazon Quick. You will collaborate with many partner teams, influence architecture, and coach engineers to raise quality in security-critical, scalable systems.

The role emphasizes mentoring, architecture leadership, and hands-on development across the access-control stack, with a focus on enterprise-readiness for large customers