Software Development Engineer - AWS Identity & Access Management, AWS Identity

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

Restricted stock units

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Identity & Access Management team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, implement, and deploy scalable identity services. You will work with cross-functional teams to build secure authentication and authorization capabilities for AWS customers, influencing architecture and performance across systems.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of professional software development, 2+ years in design or architecture, and strong programming experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Create and collaborate in the design, implementation, and deployment of systems and services.
• Work with talented teams delivering impactful projects and grow alongside senior engineers.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions while understanding system interdependencies and limits.
• Share knowledge of performance, scalability, architecture, and engineering patterns and methods.

Job description

Software Development Engineer – AWS Identity & Access Management

Job ID: 10438698 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Identity team builds, operates, and innovates the identity, authentication, and authorization stack for the AWS cloud. Our mission is to enable AWS customers to run their workloads confidently and securely. As part of this mission, we leverage customer obsession to set appropriate access controls across all AWS environments.

Responsibilities

• Create and collaborate in the design, implementation, and deployment of systems and services.
• Work with talented teams delivering impactful projects and grow alongside senior engineers.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions while understanding system interdependencies and limits.
• Share knowledge of performance, scalability, architecture, and engineering patterns and methods.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

Benefits

Competitive base salary range: $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually. Package includes sign‑on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information visit https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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