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Senior Software Development Engineer - AWS IAM, AWS Identity, AWS Identity AuthRuntimeClient

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
Arlington, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/6/2026

DESCRIPTION

Do you love developing products that impact millions of people around the world? Would you enjoy identifying, defining, and building software solutions that revolutionize how businesses operate? AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS.

The AuthRuntimeClient (ARC) team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to build, deliver, and maintain complex products that delight our customers and raise our performance bar. ARC handles every single request across all AWS Services, sustaining over a billion transactions per second. We are building the most secure, reliable, scalable, and performant authentication and authorization platform on the planet. On this team, you’ll have the opportunity to tackle challenging technical problems, innovate for services across all of AWS, and raise our high-bar on security for all of our customers. You will thrive by being creative, responsible, and curious, leading the team 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 at unparalleled scale, we want to talk to you.

Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities
Our engineers collaborate across diverse teams, projects, and environments to have a firsthand impact on our global customer base.

You will:

  • 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.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and solve complex problems from first principles.
  • Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
  • Launch, own, support, and continuously improve your solutions for the benefit of our customers.

A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team improve authorization across AWS, you’ll write design docs, implement improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects.

You’ll also:

  • 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.

About the team
The AuthRuntimeClient team provides authentication and authorization to all services at AWS. We are a critical part of how customers around the world access their resources, which give us global reach and scale. ARC sits at the center of security and innovation, often needing novel approaches to solve complex problems spanning millions of customers and most AWS services. While we move fast, we also have to look around corners and anticipate the peculiar ways AWS services work. On the ARC team, every day is a different challenge!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 5 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.


The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.


USA, VA, Arlington - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

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