What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Development Engineer III, AWS- IAM Identity position at Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
Description
We are looking for a strong Software Development Engineer to work with a team responsible for building core onboarding components for the next generation IAM Control Plane architecture.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables customers to secure their workloads in the cloud by providing authentication and authorization mechanisms to all of AWS. We enable our customers to manage their credentials and access policies in the AWS cloud. We operate some of the largest distributed systems in the world, processing billions of transactions per second world-wide.
The IAM Control Plane teams are working on the next generation architecture for IAM aiming to improve the scaling, and availability of the system. This team will be responsible for designing, building and delivering on core storage fleet management components, including workloads for building fleets, remediating failures, managing data replication, providing disaster recovery capabilities and similar.
Key job responsibilities
Why you would want to work in this new project:
A day in the life
A day in SDE-III life starts with team standup to review the sprint tasks and on-call tickets. You engage in the tasks team has delivered identify and spearhead blockers and question the design and operational decision to understand the feasibility. You own the services end to end and provide proactive inputs that are data driven. You mentor SDE-II and guide them to the solutions and data. You contribute in team prioritization and roadmap decisions. You identify customer problems and dig deeper than surface level solutions.
Basic Qualifications
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, TX, Austin - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. - B02
Job ID: A10508300
We are looking for a strong Software Development Engineer to work with a team responsible for building core onboarding components for the next generation IAM Control Plane architecture.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables customers to secure their workloads in the cloud by providing authentication and authorization mechanisms to all of AWS. We enable our customers to manage their credentials and access policies in the AWS cloud. We operate some of the largest distributed systems in the world, processing billions of transactions per second world-wide.
The IAM Control Plane teams are working on the next generation architecture for IAM aiming to improve the scaling, and availability of the system. This team will be responsible for designing, building and delivering on core storage fleet management components, including workloads for building fleets, remediating failures, managing data replication, providing disaster recovery capabilities and similar.
Key job responsibilities
Why you would want to work in this new project:
- You will provide a service that is core to all AWS services.
- You will be in charge of the complete software development lifecycle; defining, prioritizing, designing, implementing, and testing new features for Identity and Access globally distributed backend store.
- You have very strong design abilities to build scalable systems.
- You will operate an AWS business with globally distributed servers and customers.
- You will own one of the lowest latency, highest throughput and availability services in all of AWS.
- You will understand what it takes to grow and operate a global distributed backend store at our scale.
- You will provide technical solutions that not only meet the current needs but also consider the future, promoting simplicity and ease of maintainability.
- Your solutions will be designed in such a way that they can be easily understood and contributed to by other team members.
A day in the life
A day in SDE-III life starts with team standup to review the sprint tasks and on-call tickets. You engage in the tasks team has delivered identify and spearhead blockers and question the design and operational decision to understand the feasibility. You own the services end to end and provide proactive inputs that are data driven. You mentor SDE-II and guide them to the solutions and data. You contribute in team prioritization and roadmap decisions. You identify customer problems and dig deeper than surface level solutions.
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
- 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
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, TX, Austin - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually
Company - Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. - B02
Job ID: A10508300