Software Development Engineer, IAM Stores Security
Amazon
As a Software Development Engineer in the Identity and Access Management group, you design and operate large-scale distributed systems that protect customer and corporate data. You work across teams to translate security and compliance needs into scalable platform capabilities, driving on-call reliability and high-performance data processing. You shape technical direction, mentor peers, and partner with security and service-owner teams to enable a trusted customer experience at scale. This role blends software craftsmanship with security-focused innovation.
Responsibilities- Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems processing security-relevant data with high availability and low latency
- Own services end to end including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and on-call rotation
- Build libraries, integrations, and tooling to simplify platform adoption across Amazon engineering teams
- Work with very large datasets, designing data models, pipelines, and query patterns for speed and cost efficiency
- Collaborate cross-functionally with security, compliance, and service-owning teams to translate requirements into platform capabilities
- Contribute to technical direction through design documents, reviews, and cross-team influence
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar on code quality, security, and operational practices
- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience programming in at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# with object-oriented design
- Experience designing or architecting systems with reliability and scaling considerations
- Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards, reviews, source control, build, testing, and operations
- strong communication skills
- teamwork commitment
- cross-functional collaboration
- distributed systems design and architecture
- large-scale data processing
- high availability and low latency systems
Reference: WJ-747_31224782