Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS IAM Distributed Database System
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jun 5, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and operate scalable, highly available AWS IAM distributed systems for authentication and authorization, with reliable, low-latency request processing.
What you'll do
- Develop the next generation of IAM systems for evolving workloads and access patterns.
- Build and operate fault-tolerant distributed systems and microservices that handle high-volume traffic with millisecond latency.
- Improve operational sustainability, including addressing root causes and eliminating flaky tests.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ 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
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, IAM
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