Senior SDE, AWS IAM

At Amazon Web Services Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) we build, operate, and innovate the identity management, authentication, and authorization stack for the AWS cloud. Our mission is to push technical boundaries to enable AWS customers to run their business workloads confidently and securely. As part of this mission, we Think Big and Dive Deep as we leverage technology to give customers state-of-the-art controls to manage access across all their AWS environments.

At IAM, we operate one of the largest distributed systems in the world, which processes tens of millions of transactions per second. With the growth of AWS, the customer workloads and access patterns keep evolving, demanding the next order of magnitude scalability. We are looking for a strong Senior Software Engineer to join the team that can own and operate the IAM Control Plane ecosystem of services.

Key job responsibilitiesA successful candidate has established background in designing, building and operating high-performing, reliable distributed systems of the global scale as part of a high-functioning engineering team. You must have strong technical skills, solid project management skills, be an efficient communicator and have motivation, vision and high judgement to stay focused on key business outcomes to deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

IAM is a highly technical space with emphasis on security, scale and operational excellence. You will be expected to be a strong technical leader who effectively partners with others, keeps the big picture in sight, informs prioritization, builds consensus and rallies the team behind it. Core responsibilities include design and implementation of complex system components while raising the bar on quality and supporting less experienced members of the team in growing in their technical skills.

About the team

We own the most security-sensitive part of the IAM Control Plane, with a focus on insider threat. IAM is 17 years old, handles millions of transactions per second, and grows with every AWS launch. Every AWS service is different, and security controls are as complex as the systems they protect. That puts us at the heart of AWS, working on its most interesting security risks.

Proactively, we set the security strategy and put preventative controls in place. Reactively, we lead high-severity incident response.

Basic qualifications- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 7+ 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 qualification - 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- 4+ years of highly scalable systems experience

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