Software Dev Engineer II, AWS Identity

Security is the #1 concern for customers moving to the cloud and AWS is dedicated to providing security features our customers need at scale.

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. Our team in IAM is responsible for verifying the correctness of of these mechanisms across all AWS services.

We are looking for a talented software engineer who is passionate about taking hard problems head on and creating simple scalable maintainable solutions in authentication and authorization space.

We have high standards for our systems: our services are highly secure highly reliable highly available and must function at massive scale. Were looking for top engineers to design evangelize and implement state of the art solutions for massive scale.

Key job responsibilities
- Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive design and build innovative products and services.
- Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
- Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.
- Collaborate across organizations.

About the team
The IAM Auth Consistency Tooling (ACT) team is responsible for building and operating services that verify the correctness of authentication and authorization across AWS service API.

- 4 years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 2 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
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience

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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 NY New York - 158100.00 - 213800.00 USD annually