Senior Software Developer, IAM STS

Amazon • Seattle, WA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations across various services like Compute, Database, Storage, IoT, Platform, and Productivity Apps. The Security Token Service (STS) team within AWS is seeking a Software Development Engineer III to build, deliver, and maintain complex, fault-tolerant systems at massive scale. This role involves designing and implementing innovative services and applications in the AWS Cloud, tackling challenging technical problems, and contributing to industry-wide identity federation using open protocols like SAML and OIDC. The ideal candidate is creative, responsible, curious, and passionate about cloud computing, with a track record of delivering high-quality solutions in hyper-growth environments.

Requirements

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 7+ 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

Nice To Haves

• 7+ 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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects.
• Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
• Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
• Work in a fast-paced development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.

Benefits

• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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
• Parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree