Identity Services owns the systems that enable authenticating and identifying every Amazon customer in the world. Every aspect of the Amazon global business depends on our systems to know who the customer is and if our systems are not up and running the company stops. We balance keeping our systems fast scalable and performant (no exceptions!) with rapidly delivering great features for Amazon customers and our developer short we get to own and innovate on a critical customer experience while also supporting nearly every other business at the company; the best of both worlds
We are looking for builder who are passionate about building secure and intuitive customer experiences and who love the challenge of building performant and robust systems at scale. Our systems manage hundreds of millions of customer records and respond to millions of transactions per minute. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit know how to deliver are innovative and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems then we want you as a Software Development Engineer for Amazons eCommerce Platform Identity Services group.
Key job responsibilities
- Design and implement highly scalable authentication systems that can handle millions of transactions per minute
- Develop secure performant solutions that protect customer identities across global platforms
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate identity services into complex technical ecosystems
- Create and maintain robust efficient code that meets the highest standards of reliability
- Continuously improve system performance security and user experience
- 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
- 3 years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development Release or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
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