Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS IAM Data Plane, AWS Identity & Access Management Data Plane

Application deadline: Jun 29 2026

We are building the most secure reliable scalable and performant authentication and authorization platform on the planet. We enable every AWS customer to securely access their resources while powering generative AI workloads at global scale.

We are looking for a talented Senior Software Development Engineer who is passionate about transforming complex problems into simple scalable and maintainable solutions in the authentication and authorization space. You will own the design and delivery of systems that protect some of the most sensitive surfaces in AWS.

If this sounds exciting to you wed love to connect.


Key job responsibilities
Sr. SDEs collaborate across diverse teams projects and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base. Youll bring a passion for innovation performance cloud security and distributed systems. Youll also:

-Solve challenging technical problems often ones not solved before at every layer of the stack.
-Design implement test deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance durability cost and security.
-Build high-quality highly available always-on products.
-Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
-Provide technical leadership for the team and collaborate across organizations.
-Coach and mentor junior engineers.

About the team
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is at the foundation of every AWS service and every customer interaction with the cloud. Our team builds the systems that customers and services rely on to authenticate and authorize access across the worlds most widely adopted cloud platform. We operate at massive scale processing billions of requests per day with extremely high availability requirements.

- 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

- 7 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors 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 including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CO Denver - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually