Software Development Engineer, Amazon Cognito

Description

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.

Amazon Cognito is an AWS service allowing developers to focus on building great app experiences without having to worry about building and managing a backend solutions to handle identity management, authorization, authentication, and federation. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to build and maintain full-fledged identity management solution in cloud in a secure, scalable manner. It also makes it trivial to manage unique end user identifiers for accessing other AWS cloud services.

If you are passionate about the security and identity space, would love to work on technology powering some of the largest organizations in the world, you are up to the challenge of scaling the system to support billions of users, and you want to build solutions simplifying the lives of app developers, then we want to talk with you. The team owns the backend service stack that powers the Amazon Cognito service.

We are looking for effective self-starters, can innovate on behalf of the customer, can wear multiple hats to make the lives of app/web developers easier.

About Us

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and Amaze Con (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Basic Qualifications

* 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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…