Software Development Engineer III, AWS- IAM Identity
About the role
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables customers to secure their workloads in the cloud by providing authentication and authorization mechanisms to all of AWS. The IAM Control Plane teams are working on the next generation architecture for IAM aiming to improve the scaling and availability of the system. This team will be responsible for designing, building and delivering on core storage fleet management components, including workloads for building fleets, remediating failures, managing data replication, providing disaster recovery capabilities and similar.
Why this project
- Provide a service that is core to all AWS services
- Be in charge of the complete software development lifecycle; defining, prioritizing, designing, implementing, and testing new features for Identity and Access globally distributed backend store
- Very strong design abilities to build scalable systems
- Operate an AWS business with globally distributed servers and customers
- Own one of the lowest latency, highest throughput and availability services in all of AWS
- Understand what it takes to grow and operate a global distributed backend store at our scale
- Provide technical solutions that not only meet the current needs but also consider the future, promoting simplicity and ease of maintainability
- Your solutions will be designed in such a way that they can be easily understood and contributed to by other team members
Responsibilities
- Participate in team standup to review sprint tasks and on-call tickets
- Engage in the tasks team has delivered, identify and spearhead blockers, and question design and operational decisions to understand feasibility
- Own services end to end and provide proactive, data-driven inputs
- Mentor SDE-IIs and guide them to solutions and data
- Contribute to team prioritization and roadmap decisions
- Identify customer problems and dig deeper than surface level solutions
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ 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
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (USA, TX, Austin). Package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance with 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
- Parental leave