Software Development Engineer, AWS IAM Distributed Database System

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. With the growth of AWS the workloads and access patterns keep evolving demanding the next order of magnitude scalability. We are looking for strong software engineers to build the next generation of IAM systems. Individuals interested in this position should have experience building high-performing reliable systems in a complex multi-tenancy and distributed environment in a fast-paced environment.

Youll thrive in this role if you are interested in building highly available fault-tolerant distributed systems low latency request processing and p100 anomalies. You are capable in one or more programming languages and open to learning new ones. You include customer experience when discussing engineering alternatives and value creating APIs that make The right thing the easy thing. You value operational sustainability and advocate for eliminating flaky tests as soon as possible. You also think having fun goes together with tackling hard problems like supercomputing high availability streaming and building loosely coupled micro-services all while continuing to securely and reliably handling massive traffic with millisecond latency.

About the team
Were a diverse team thats intentional about building an inclusive culture. Our members are active across Amazons many affinity groups spanning a wide range of backgrounds and communities. We value work-life balance and offer flexible hours our on-call rotation is roughly one week every two months and we invest in fault-tolerant systems so pages are rare. When they happen we fix root causes together. Were committed to your growth through hands-on mentorship thoughtful code reviews and projects chosen to stretch your skills and advance your career.

- 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

- 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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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 - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually