Software Development Engineer II, AFFS Identity

About the Role

As a Software Development Engineer II in the Amazon Foundational Security Services (AFSS) organization at AWS, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of AWS's identity management landscape. We provide the critical infrastructure that powers Amazon's vast range of services, enabling them to deliver for customers across the globe.

What You Will Do

• Work on complex challenges in existing and new development initiatives, focusing on areas with ambiguity
• Design and develop software systems that are secure, maintainable, scalable, and extendable
• Develop an understanding of the business impact of your systems and make responsible trade-offs between short-term operational needs and long-term business objectives
• Actively participate in team strategy discussions and contribute to decisions regarding technology
• Provide technical solutions that meet current needs while considering the future, promoting simplicity and ease of maintainability
• Design solutions that can be easily understood and contributed to by other team members
• Collaborate with your team, encouraging best practices and setting standards to improve overall quality of work
• In situations with differing viewpoints, strive to find the best way forward and build consensus

Why It Matters

Amazon and Amazon Web Services are growing at an unprecedented rate. To keep up with that growth, we are in constant need of innovative processes and automation solutions. Your work will have a company-wide impact, affecting thousands of developers and teams, and enabling us to launch and scale our services rapidly.

Why You'll Love It

• Comprehensive view of all aspects of Amazon's business
• Opportunity to work with massive data sets and improve the agility of our technical teams
• Be part of a growing, fast-paced, and innovative team
• Ownership and responsibility to define and execute processes that enhance productivity and savings for AWS and Amazon

Key Job Responsibilities

We own the identity directory and system-account foundation for Amazon Foundational Security Services (AFSS). Our services are the substrate beneath every security pillar at Amazon: the directory that answers roughly 20 billion identity and infrastructure lookups per day across every AWS region and partition, and the system-account and credential lifecycle that keeps tens of thousands of machine identities secure and continuously rotated at scale. Teams across Amazon depend on us to authenticate, authorize, and attribute both human and machine access correctly, every time.

This job requires an array of technical talents: system design, software development, customer service, hard prioritization, and making good decisions. At heart, you will be required to solve hard problems correctly.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ 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

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

Pay

USA, WA, BELLEVUE - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually. 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.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Schedule

Flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. We value work-life harmony; achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home.

About the Team

Diverse Experiences: Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture: In Amazon Security, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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