Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS IAM Control Plane

At Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) we build operate and innovate the identity management 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 Think Big and Dive Deep as we leverage technology to give customers state-of-the-art controls to manage access across all their AWS environments. At IAM we operate one of the largest distributed systems in the world which processes tens of millions of transactions per second.

With the growth of AWS the customer workloads and access patterns keep evolving demanding the next order of magnitude scalability. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team behind foundational IAM functionality.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of foundational security improvements across IAM services
- Identify and drive investments that proactively reduce risk across authentication and authorization surfaces
- Partner with security applied science and service teams to define and prioritize high-judgment technical initiatives
- Deliver production systems that operate at AWS scale with the highest availability and correctness requirements
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews code reviews and operational excellence

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.

- 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