Software Development Engineer - AWS Identity

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of Amazon’s fastest growing businesses. It serves millions of customers, from startups to enterprises, in more than 190 countries and powers the developers who are building the next generation of global industry leaders. AWS runs a globally distributed environment, operating at massive levels of scale.
The AWS Resource Management team is looking for an experienced Senior Software Development Engineer with a passion for building highly reliable and low latency services for use by all AWS Services and AWS customers to manage their AWS Resources. We are embarking on projects to create new systems to streamline AWS service integration with Identity services, and it’s a great time to join and help shape and deliver on this strategy. Come be a part of defining how customers small and large will use and manage their AWS resources.

AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. AWS Platform is the glue that holds the AWS ecosystem together. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.

Learn and Be Curious. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

Inclusion and Diversity. Our team is diverse! We drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. We are intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Team members are active in Amazon’s 10+ affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network, Latinos at Amazon, Indigenous at Amazon, Families at Amazon, Amazon Women and Engineering, LGBTQ+, Warriors at Amazon (Military), Amazon People With Disabilities, and more.

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Responsibilities include define and design the service architecture, lead the effort to build highly reliable and high-performance foundational services that offer the best in operational excellence.

Successful applicants will have experience defining service architecture, strong development skills and experience in software design, development, testing and operations, and will meet a high technical bar.

Come join our start-up culture, wear many hats, work fast and smart, while adapting and iterating quickly. We are looking for someone who is ready to roll-up their sleeves and join a tightly-knit team that is tackling a very interesting and challenging opportunity.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Master's degree in Computer Science or related fields
· Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
· Experience with very large distributed systems such as large-scale distributed database systems, storage farms, and/or horizontally scaled request processing fleets
· Development Expertise in OOP, Java, UNIX, Python, XML, Web services, and UNIX tools
· Excellent oral and written communication skills
· Track record for being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow-through on projects
· Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
· Ability to dive deep but never be out of touch with the details of the business
· Experience running and maintaining a 24x7 production environment
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

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Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
· Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
· 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
· Passionate about designing and developing simple solutions to complex, ambiguous problems
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
· Deep understanding of large distributed and online systems