Software Engineer - Identity Platform (Scale & Security)

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

Job summary

Amazon is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the AWS Identity team in Seattle. You will design, build, and operate distributed systems that handle authentication and authorization decisions at scale, enabling customers to securely manage access to resources.

You will tackle challenges at the intersection of security, distributed systems, and customer experience, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers while shaping architectural decisions and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• 3+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience mentoring, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale distributed software applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.

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 that process millions of requests per second
• 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

Skills

Software development

Team leadership

Mentoring

Design patterns

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon is looking for a Software Development Engineer to join the AWS Identity team in Seattle. You will design, build, and operate distributed systems that handle authentication and authorization decisions at scale, enabling customers to securely manage access to resources.

You will tackle challenges at the intersection of security, distributed systems, and customer experience, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers while shaping architectural decisions and best practices.