Software Development Engineer, AWS Identity, IAM Data Plane - Credentials Distribution Systems

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • $143,700 - $194,400 • Onsite

About The Position

This role focuses on building and operating the IAM role credential distribution platform for Amazon's internal infrastructure. This is a tier-0 system critical for all service teams across the company, ensuring seamless distribution of short-lived, least-privilege credentials at Amazon's scale. The primary focus is on security, scalability, and resilience, with an emphasis on designing for failure and driving automation. The role also involves working with internal customers to simplify credential management through features and tooling, making adoption effortless for service teams. Strong ownership and operational excellence are essential. The ideal candidate is passionate about distributed systems, cloud security, and building infrastructure that thousands of teams depend on daily.

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

• Design, build, and operate a tier-0 credential distribution system that serves every service team across Amazon's internal infrastructure
• Own and continuously improve system reliability, scalability, and security — proactively identifying risks and building mechanisms to prevent recurring issues
• Work backwards from internal customers to simplify credential management, building features and tooling that make adoption seamless and effortless
• Drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring improvements, and runbook development — reducing operational toil and improving mean time to resolution
• Collaborate with partner teams across Amazon to drive credential migration and adoption goals
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex distributed systems issues across multiple layers of the stack
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action follow-through
• Contribute to system design and architecture decisions, ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability
• Leverage AI tooling to improve engineering productivity, automate workflows, and raise the bar on operational efficiency
• Raise the bar for engineering quality through thorough code reviews, testing practices, and technical documentation

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: Mid Level