Senior Software Developer, IAM STS

Do you love developing products that impact millions of people around the world Would you enjoy identifying defining and building software solutions that revolutionize how businesses operate

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS.

The Security Token Service (STS) team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Software Development Engineer III to build deliver and maintain complex products that delight our customers and raise our performance bar. Youll design fault-tolerant systems that run at massive scale as we continue to innovate best-in-class services and applications in the AWS Cloud. Youll have an opportunity to tackle challenging technical problems create great products that customers depend on and contribute to improving industry-wide identity federation using open protocols like SAML and OIDC in a fast-paced environment. You will thrive by being creative responsible and curious leading the team to quickly turn code into customer solutions. If youre passionate about the massive cloud computing opportunity have delivered high-quality solutions in hyper-growth environments and want to solve challenging problems for customers we want to talk to you.

About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams projects and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. You will:

* Solve challenging technical problems often ones not solved before at every layer of the stack.
* Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance durability cost and security.
* Build high-quality highly available always-on products.
* Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.



A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture youll create metrics implement automation and other improvements and resolve the root cause of software defects. Youll also:

* Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
* Participate in design discussions code review and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
* Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
* Work in a fast-paced development environment where youre always working on the most important stuff.



About the team
Were the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) data plane team. We build and operate one of the largest and most important software systems in the world one that is used by every AWS customer makes authorization decisions about every AWS API request and needs to scale with all other AWS services.

Security is the #1 concern and requirement for customers as they evaluate moving their workloads and resources to the cloud. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables customers to secure their workloads in the cloud by providing authentication and authorization mechanisms along with customer-facing tooling. With the growth of AWS the workloads and access pattern keep evolving and therefore demanding the next order of magnitude for scalability.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough but kind code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.


- 7 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 7 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

- 7 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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