Software Development Engineer, AWS Identity, IAM Data Plane - Credentials Distribution 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

What does it take to distribute billions of security credentials every day to every host across Amazon’s infrastructure - without ever going down? That's the challenge at the core of this role.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate a tier-0 credential distribution system that serves every service team across Amazon's internal infrastructure
• Own and continuously improve system reliability, scalability, and security — proactively identifying risks and building mechanisms to prevent recurring issues
• Work backwards from internal customers to simplify credential management, building features and tooling that make adoption seamless and effortless
• Drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring improvements, and runbook development — reducing operational toil and improving mean time to resolution
• Collaborate with partner teams across Amazon to drive credential migration and adoption goals
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex distributed systems issues across multiple layers of the stack
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action follow-through
• Contribute to system design and architecture decisions, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability
• Leverage AI tooling to improve engineering productivity, automate workflows, and raise the bar on operational efficiency
• Raise the bar for engineering quality through thorough code reviews, testing practices, and technical documentation

About The Team

The AWS Credentials Distribution Systems (CreDS) team sits within AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - the backbone of cloud security at Amazon. We own tier-0 services that distribute and manage ephemer al, least-privilege credentials across AWS compute platforms and Amazon's internal infrastructure.

We hold a high bar for system reliability, security, and scalability — backed by rigorous operational practices, thorough code reviews, and a bias toward automation. When an issue arises, we own it, learn from it, and build mechanisms to prevent it from recurring.

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

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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

Company - Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Job ID: A10420512