Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS Identity
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 20, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years for the experience areas specified in the requirements and preferred qualifications.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates AWS identity infrastructure and distributed services for authentication, authorization, and secure access management.
What you'll do
- Design and implement identity infrastructure, including control plane APIs, data plane environments, and deployment orchestration.
- Build scalable, highly available services and monitoring and operational tooling for reliability and incident response.
- Contribute to identity and security architecture, and mentor engineers through reviews and operational practices.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 3+ years as a software development engineer or in a related occupation.
- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
- 3+ years designing and developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; experience with object-oriented design and at least one programming language.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
C#, C++, Java, Perl
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