Amazon
Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Identity and Access Management
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three stated experience areas; leadership experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Leads development of scalable, reliable IAM control-plane systems, including core storage fleet management, replication, failure remediation, and disaster recovery capabilities.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance of complex software systems; review designs and code for quality, performance, extensibility, and security.
- Establish operational practices, including alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and retrospectives, and improve processes, training, and team development.
- Coordinate with peers and management, mentor and guide engineers, and contribute high-quality code.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Slack, email, Chime, CI/CD
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