Software Development Engineer, Amazon Cognito

Amazon • Dallas, TX

3d • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Platform is the glue that holds the AWS ecosystem together. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.

Amazon Cognito is an AWS service allowing developers to focus on building great app experiences without having to worry about building and managing a backend solutions to handle identity management, authorization, authentication, and federation. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to build and maintain full-fledged identity management solution in cloud in a secure, scalable manner. It also makes it trivial to manage unique end user identifiers for accessing other AWS cloud services.

If you are passionate about the security and identity space, would love to work on technology powering some of the largest organizations in the world, you are up to the challenge of scaling the system to support billions of users, and you want to build solutions simplifying the lives of app developers, then we want to talk with you. The team owns the backend service stack that powers the Amazon Cognito service. We are looking for effective self-starters, can innovate on behalf of the customer, can wear multiple hats to make the lives of app/web developers easier.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ 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
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 3+ 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

• Innovate on behalf of the customer
• Wear multiple hats to make the lives of app/web developers easier

Benefits

• 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: Mid Level