Software Development Engineer, AWS Directory Service

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

Software Development Engineer, AWS Directory Service

Job ID: 10523955 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

AWS Directory Service is a fully managed service that allows customers to set up and run directories in the AWS cloud, or to connect AWS resources with their existing on‑premises Active Directory. It’s a high‑scale, highly available distributed system supporting sub‑second latency micro‑services to a large growing customer base. We support the scale of millions of requests per second and the service needs to be always available. As a managed offering, we take care of building and maintaining a secure, complex, highly available directory topology for our customers to easily manage their users, groups and resources. We also facilitate automated monitoring, fail‑over and recovery, along with automated patching, updates and replication.

As part of the AWS Identity organization, we are pioneers in areas such as identity, access management, security and providing massively scaled, distributed platform capabilities to all of AWS. Our mission is to build the most secure, reliable, scalable and performant authentication and authorization platform on the planet, which enables every AWS customer to have secure access to their resources. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world, and we need passionate engineers like you to work with us on this mission!

As a Software Development Engineer, you’ll be part of a team in a fast‑paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start‑up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top‑notch experience in cloud computing. You’ll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You will design and build the operational scalability that sustains the platform’s insane growth.

Key job 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
• 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

A day in the life

Our team puts a high value on work‑life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life‑long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee‑led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge‑sharing, mentorship and other career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered, multi‑threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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

Equal Opportunity Employer

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSU). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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