About the position
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of Herndon, VA, USA. When was the last time you heard of a cyber-attack that took down a host of companies due to poor Authentication controls? Likely a few times in the last few months. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), our team is building out a renewed set of Foundational Access Management capabilities for all of Amazon's digital and physical resources. We are a fun, collaborative team, and we focus on empowering everyone on the team achieve their next goal. We are responsible for the protection of customer and corporate data, while being connected to all parts of Amazon's business and its massive worldwide service-oriented architecture. Whether you're passionate about building highly scalable and reliable systems in the cloud or a software developer who likes to solve interesting and complex business problems, AWS Security is the place for you. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to design and build large scale next generation of Authentication Management System. There is ample opportunity to innovate and deliver high impact outcomes. You will collaborate with the leadership team to drive key engineering and business decisions that will influence the Amazon developer experience. You will contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle across the entire Amazon development community, including design, implementation, documentation, deployment and operations across multiple products. Successful candidates for this position will have strong software engineering fundamentals such as object-oriented design, algorithms, data structures, and a good grasp of advanced systems concepts and design. They must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven and deliver high results. They need to really enjoy working closely with their peers within a group of very talented engineers and builders. This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don't like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don't get paged for the same issue twice.
Responsibilities
- Design and build large scale next generation of Authentication Management System.
- Collaborate with the leadership team to drive key engineering and business decisions.
- Contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle.
- Ensure systems are fault tolerant and resolve root causes of issues.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture of new and existing systems experience.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Flexible work hours and arrangements.
- Endless knowledge-sharing and training resources.
- Opportunities for career advancement.
