Software Development Engineer III, AWS Identity, AWS Identity

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 functionality in this area. Individuals interested in this position should have experience building high-performing reliable systems in a complex multi-tenancy and distributed environment in a highly contingent environment.

Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams projects and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. Youll bring a passion for innovation data search analytics and distributed systems. Youll also:

- Lead the design and delivery of software systems spanning multiple features and the full software lifecycle from design through implementation testing deployment and long-term maintenance strategy.
- Own team architecture providing system-wide design guidance and driving adoption of engineering best practices across the team.
- Solve complex problems with multiple risks and conflicting constraints defining technology strategy where one does not yet exist.
- Effectively communicate technical designs and decisions in writing building consensus across teams with differing points of view.
- Balance speed of delivery with long-term extensibility identifying one-way-door decisions and advocating for the right solution for customers.
- Coach and mentor multiple engineers contributing to team growth through training recruiting and career guidance.
- Ensure operational excellence with the right alarms telemetry runbooks and retrospective processes.
- Proactively resolve root causes of endemic problems including areas where your team limits the innovation of other teams.

A day in the life
As you lead the design and delivery of complex software systems youll define technology strategy drive architectural decisions and ensure operational excellence across your team. Youll also:

- Own delivering complex and raising the bar code and architectural changes with system-wide impact.
- Lead design discussions build consensus across teams and communicate decisions effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Mentor and coach engineers on your team raising the bar through code reviews design guidance and career development.
- Drive cross-team alignment to resolve systemic issues and unblock innovation across the organization.

About the team

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.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 4 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