SDE II, AWS- IAM Identity

We are looking for a strong Software Development Engineer to work with a team responsible for building core onboarding components for the next generation IAM Control Plane architecture.

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.

Key job responsibilities Why you would want to work in this new project:

• You will provide a service that is core to all AWS services.
• You will be in charge of the complete software development lifecycle; defining, prioritizing, designing, implementing, and testing new features for Identity and Access globally distributed backend store.
• You will operate an AWS business with globally distributed servers and customers.
• You will own one of the lowest latency, highest throughput and availability services in all of AWS.
• You will understand what it takes to grow and operate a global distributed backend store at our scale.
• You will provide technical solutions that not only meet the current needs but also consider the future, promoting simplicity and ease of maintainability.
• Your solutions will be designed in such a way that they can be easily understood and contributed to by other team members.

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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