Software Development Engineer, AWS STS

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • $143,700 - $194,400 • Onsite

About The Position

The Security Token Service (STS) team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Software Development Engineer II to build, deliver, and maintain complex products that delight our customers and raise the performance bar. You'll design fault-tolerant systems that run at massive scale as we continue to innovate best-in-class services and applications in the AWS Cloud. You'll have an opportunity to tackle challenging technical problems, create great products that customers depend on and contribute to improving industry-wide identity federation using open protocols like SAML and OIDC in a fast-paced environment. You'll thrive by being creative, responsible, and curious, leading efforts to quickly turn code into customer solutions. If you're passionate about the massive cloud computing opportunity, have delivered high-quality solutions in hyper-growth environments, and want to solve challenging problems for customers, we want to talk to you.

Requirements

• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 4+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

Nice To Haves

• 4+ 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
• Experience debugging, profiling, and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems
• Experience leading engineering teams as a mentor or tech lead

Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end — 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 and implement solutions that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders across AWS to deliver secure, scalable identity solutions.
• Contribute to raising the engineering bar through code reviews, technical mentorship, and design discussions.

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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