Software Development Engineer II, Identity and Registry, AWS IoT Core

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AWS IoT Core enables billions of devices to connect securely to the cloud and the Identity and Registry team is at the heart of it. We own the foundational primitives that give every IoT device its identity manage its metadata and govern how it interacts with the cloud at massive scale.

As a Software Development Engineer on this team you will design and build the systems that customers rely on to provision authenticate and manage their IoT fleets from a single prototype to billions of devices in production. Youll work on challenges spanning distributed systems security identity management and scalable metadata storage and retrieval directly shaping the experience for some of the worlds largest IoT deployments.

This is a high-impact role where your work will be felt across the entire AWS IoT platform and by customers spanning multiple industries from smart home and automotive to broadcasting and industrial automation. If youre excited about building foundational infrastructure that operates at Internet of Things scale and solving hard problems in device identity and registry wed love to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities
- Design develop and maintain core services that power device identity and state management for AWS IoT Core serving billions of devices worldwide
- Build and operate highly available low-latency distributed systems that handle device provisioning authentication metadata and state management
- Own the full software development lifecycle from requirements gathering and design through implementation testing deployment and production operations
- Write high-quality well-tested code and participate in code reviews to maintain a high engineering bar across the team
- Contribute to system architecture by authoring and reviewing design documents identifying trade-offs and proposing solutions to complex technical problems
- Improve operational excellence by building monitoring alarming and automation tooling; participate in on-call rotations and drive root cause analysis for operational events
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other AWS IoT teams to deliver integrated customer experiences
- Mentor and support fellow engineers through knowledge sharing design discussions and constructive code reviews
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes developer productivity and system efficiency including leveraging AI to automate workflows enhance testing and accelerate delivery

A day in the life
Youll spend focused time writing code building new APIs tuning system performance to reduce latency at billion-device scale or improving provisioning workflows. Youll collaborate with teammates through design reviews and code reviews and partner with other IoT Core teams on cross-cutting features. Some days youll dig into customer escalations tracing issues through logs and metrics. Other days youll experiment with AI tools to improve engineering processes. No two days are the same but every day youre building the foundation that enables billions of devices to connect to AWS IoT.

The Identity and Registry team owns the foundational services at the core of AWS IoT device identity registry shadow and provisioning. We build and operate systems that enable billions of devices to securely connect be managed and interact with the cloud. Our team values operational excellence customer obsession and a strong ownership culture where every engineer has a direct impact. Were a collaborative group that enjoys tackling hard distributed systems problems together and were committed to growing each other through mentorship and open technical debate. Were looking for builders who are excited to work at IoT scale.

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- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle including coding standards software architectures code reviews source control management continuous deployments testing and operational excellence
- Knowledge of system performance memory management and parallel computing principles

- Experience debugging profiling and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
- Masters degree or above in Computer Science or other related discipline
- Experience with IoT protocols and standards (MQTT TLS/mTLS X.509 certificates)
- Familiarity with device identity management provisioning workflows or PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
- Knowledge of security best practices including authentication authorization encryption at rest/in transit and credential rotation
- Experience designing and operating registry-style services (metadata stores device/asset catalogs) at high throughput and low latency
- Experience with DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases at scale including data modeling and performance tuning
- Familiarity with API design (REST gRPC) and building public-facing service APIs with backward compatibility
- Experience with operational excellence practices monitoring alarming on-call runbook authoring
- Exposure to load balancing traffic shaping or deployment strategies
- Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading technical projects end-to-end

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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