Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Technology

SeniorSoftwareDevelopmentEngineer,AWSIdentityandAccessManagement

$100–227k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Identity and Access Management at Amazon Web Services, Inc.. Skills: Distributed systems, Scalability, High-performing systems. Lead software development. Achieve goal of delivering working software”

What You'll Achieve.

Achieve goal of delivering working software systems

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Solve problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years software development experience, 5+ years programming experience, 5+ years design or architecture experience, Experience as a mentor, Experience as a tech lead, Experience leading an engineering team

Nice to Have

5+ years full software development lifecycle experience

What You'll Do.

Lead software development

Achieve goal of delivering working software

Design software systems

Implement software systems

Test software systems

Deploy software systems

Maintain software systems

Solve problems through non-technical solutions

Ensure good operational practices

Set correct telemetry

Conduct retrospective

Provide career guidance

Communicate with team

Communicate with peers

Communicate with management

Prepare project plans

Prepare features one pagers

Review features one pagers

Prepare incident retrospectives

Review incident retrospectives

Prepare change requests

Review change requests

Prepare progress reports

Review progress reports

Work with CI/CD tools

Design next generation functionality

Build next generation functionality

Deliver core storage fleet management components

Manage data replication

Provide disaster recovery capabilities

Mentor junior developers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with peers on related teams; Cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Communication skills; Great communication skills; Technical documentation; Progress reports

Process & Methodology

Project management, Project plans

Full Job Description

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Identity team builds, operates, and innovates the identity, authentication, and authorization stack for the AWS cloud. Our mission is to push the technical boundaries to enable AWS customers to run their business workloads confidently and securely. As part of this mission, we leverage customer obsession and technologies to help customers set appropriate access controls across all their AWS environments. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables customers to secure their workloads in the cloud by providing authentication and authorization mechanisms. With the growth of AWS, the workloads and access patterns keep evolving, demanding the next order of magnitude scalability. We are looking for strong software engineers to build the next generation functionality in this area. Individuals interested in this position should have experience building high-performing, reliable systems in a complex, multi-tenancy, and distributed environment in a highly contingent environment. We desire you to have an established background in design, development and operations of highly scalable and available distributed systems. You must have strong technical skills, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. It is a highly technical space. You are a strong technical contributor who understands the big picture, drives prioritization, builds consensus, and rallies the team behind it. Responsibilities include driving architecture, design, and implementation of complex components while maintaining an uncompromising bar on quality and mentoring junior developers for software within the team. Key job responsibilities You lead the team’s software development, and work with peers on related teams. You ensure to achieve the goal of delivering working software systems spanning the full software lifecycle including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance stra

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