Key job responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate highly available, low-latency authentication services that real customers depend on 24/7.
- Own features end-to-end design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations-for services in the Cognito User Auth space (sign-in, tokens, devices, and related data planes).
- Raise the bar on operational excellence: measurable availability, latency, and security improvements, and automation that removes manual work.
- Work AI-native: engage AI first, and build and extend the team's own agentic tooling for development, code review, and operational investigation.
- Dive deep on ambiguous, production-impacting problems and drive them to a root cause and a durable fix.
- Collaborate across AWS Identity teams and mentor other engineers.
A day in the life
The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience leveraging AI (Artificial Intelligence) agents for security review automation, spec-driven development practices, or adversarial red teaming
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, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually