Full Job Description
A successful candidate for this position is a strong senior software engineer who thrives in building and operating high-scale distributed systems. You will serve as a technical leader across the full breadth of our Identity Center stack, spanning multiple services and geographically distributed teams. You are passionate about designing elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems, writing high-quality code, and raising the bar for engineering excellence across organizational boundaries. You have deep experience building services that operate at massive scale with high availability requirements, and youre energized by the challenge of building secure, performant systems that millions of customers depend on every day.
You will own the end-to-end delivery of features and systems, from design through deployment and operations, working across the Identity Center stack and collaborating closely with adjacent teams in the broader ecosystem. You are comfortable diving deep into ambiguous problem spaces, driving technical direction across multiple service boundaries, and mentoring other engineers. You take pride in operational excellence and building systems that are observable, resilient, and easy to maintain. You look forward to working in a geographically distributed, high-quality international and diverse team where you can both learn from and elevate those around you.
Key job responsibilities
- Own and deliver features end-to-end across the AWS IAM Identity Center service, from design through implementation, testing, and production deployment
- Design and build scalable, highly available APIs serving millions of requests per day across all AWS regions
- Drive technical decisions for your workstream, producing design documents, leading design reviews, and incorporating feedback from senior engineers
- Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks, improve system reliability, and reduce undifferentiated heavy lifting through automation
- Mentor junior SDEs and interns, provide code reviews, and raise the quality bar for the team
- Collaborate cross-functionally with partner teams to deliver integrated customer experiences
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 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
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, BC, Vancouver - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually
