Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Identity and Access Management

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Description
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 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.

We desire you to have an established background in design, development and operations of highly scalable and available distributed systems.

You must have strong technical skills, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

It is a highly technical space.

You are a strong technical contributor who understands the big picture, drives prioritization, builds consensus, and rallies the team behind it.

Responsibilities include driving architecture, design, and implementation of complex components while maintaining an uncompromising bar on quality and mentoring junior developers for software within the team.

Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry.

As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities
You lead the team’s software development, and work with peers on related teams.

You ensure to achieve the goal of delivering working software systems spanning the full software lifecycle including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance strategy.

You design and review others’ work to ensure it fits into the bigger picture and is well designed, extensible, performant, and secure.

You also have code contributions that demonstrate best practices, which others emulate, and continue to be high-quality.
You also solve problems through the use of non-technical solutions such as process improvement, culture changes, or staffing and training.

You ensure the team has good operational practices with the correct alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and retrospective.

And finally you ensure team growth by training, recruiting, assessing, and providing career guidance to members of their team.

A day in the life
You will communicate a lot, with the team, peers and management.

Communication happens over different channel; Slack, email, and Chime.

You will prepare and review design docs, project plans, features one pagers, incident retrospectives, change requests and progress reports.

And for sure, you will write and review code, and work with CI/CD tools.

About the team
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables customers to secure their workloads in the cloud by providing authentication and authorization mechanisms to all of AWS.

We enable our customers to manage their credentials and access policies in the AWS cloud.

We operate some of the largest distributed systems in the world, processing billions of transactions per second world-wide.

The IAM Control Plane teams are working on the next generation architecture for IAM aiming to improve the scaling, and availability of the system.

This team will be responsible for designing, building and delivering on core storage fleet management components, including workloads for building fleets, remediating failures, managing data replication, providing disaster recovery capabilities and similar.

About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.

We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s 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
AWS values diverse experiences.

Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony.

Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious.

Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer.

That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Basic Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's 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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.

If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits .

This position will remain posted until filled.

Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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