Senior Software Development Engineer, IAM Control Plane Team

At AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) we build and operate the authentication and authorization infrastructure that secures the AWS cloud. Our systems process tens of millions of transactions per second making it one of the largest distributed systems globally. Were part of AWS Utility Computing (UC) which powers core AWS services including S3 EC2 and continues to drive industry-leading innovations across Compute Database Storage IoT Platform and Productivity services.

Were seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer with frontend expertise to develop and enhance user experiences across multiple AWS this role youll create intuitive secure and scalable frontend solutions that help customers manage access across their AWS environments.

Key Responsibilities:
Design and implement frontend applications using Java and JavaScript
Collaborate with engineers product managers and UX designers to build user-friendly security management interfaces
Drive operational excellence and continuous improvement in application performance and security
Contribute to architectural decisions for frontend systems at scale
Implement and maintain frontend security best practices

Join us in building the next generation of cloud security interfaces that protect millions of AWS customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities
Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive design and bring innovative products and services to market.
Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
Build distributed storage index and query systems that are scalable fault-tolerant low cost and easy to manage/use.
Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

A day in the life
Youre passionate about frontend architecture excited about emerging web standards and driven to make complex security concepts accessible through intuitive user interfaces. You thrive in an environment where you can tackle complex problems and create maintainable solutions at massive scale.


- 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

- 5 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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually