Software Development Engineer, AWS Directory Service

AWS Directory Service is a fully managed service that allows customers to set up and run directories in the AWS cloud or to connect AWS resources with their existing on-premises Active Directory. Its a high-scale highly available distributed system supporting sub-second latency micro-services to a large growing customer base. We support the scale of millions of requests per second and the service needs to be always available. As a managed offering we take care of building and maintaining a secure complex highly available directory topology for our customers to easily manage their users groups and resources. We also facilitate automated monitoring fail-over and recovery along with automated patching updates and replication.

As part of the AWS Identity organization we are pioneers in areas such as identity access management security and providing massively scaled distributed platform capabilities to all of AWS. Our mission is to build the most secure reliable scalable and performant authentication and authorization platform on the planet which enables every AWS customer to have secure access to their resources. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world and we need passionate engineers like you to work with us on this mission!

As a Software Development Engineer youll be part of a team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. Youll be surrounded by people who are smart passionate about cloud computing and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You will design and build the operational scalability that sustains the platforms insane growth.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Design and implement core identity infrastructure components including control plane APIs data plane execution environments and deployment orchestration systems
Design and implement scalable highly available services
Develop monitoring observability and operational tooling to ensure production reliability and enable rapid incident response
Contribute to technical strategy and architecture decisions for session management identity/permissions cross-account access and security integrations
Mentor junior engineers and drive engineering excellence through code reviews design reviews and operational best practices



About the team
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isnt about how many hours you spend at home or at work; its 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.


- 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

- 5 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
- Experience with Active Directory technologies

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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 WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually