Software Development Engineer, AWS IAM Distributed Database System

About the role

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 push the technical boundaries to enable AWS customers to run their business workloads confidently and securely. As part of this mission, we leverage customer obsession and technologies to help customers set appropriate access controls across all their AWS environments. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables customers to secure their workloads in the cloud by providing authentication and authorization mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Built high-performing, reliable systems in a complex, multi-tenancy, and distributed environment in a fast-paced environment.
• Designed and implemented new and existing systems with a focus on scalability and performance.
• Developed and maintained APIs that simplify access control and enhance customer experience.
• Ensured system availability and reliability through rigorous testing and operational practices.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to architect and implement solutions that meet business needs.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Skills

Strong software engineers who are capable in one or more programming languages and open to learning new ones. Includes customer experience when discussing engineering alternatives and values creating APIs that make "The right thing, the easy thing."

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Pay

Base salary range for this position is $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually.

Schedule

On-call rotation is roughly one week every two months, and fault-tolerant systems are invested in to minimize page occurrences.