Software Development Engineer - AWS Identity & Access - IAM Intelligence Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

It's still day one for cloud computing at Amazon Web Services (AWS). We provide developers and their organizations with the building blocks necessary for designing highly robust and scalable web services that help them innovate faster and operate their infrastructure in a cost-effective manner. These services range from structured storage, content delivery to on-demand compute capacity and more.

The AWS Identity and Access team is building next generation security primitives that support all AWS offerings like S3, EC2, and DynamoDB. We are innovating new ways of building massively scalable distributed security systems involving identity management, federation, web services security, single sign on, and much more.

AWS IAM Intelligence team uses cutting edge technology to process and mine through hundreds of terabytes of data per day. The team's mission is to mine access insights and create products and features that help AWS customers improve their security posture without having to be security experts.

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join our team and help build the next generation of our identity and access management (IAM) platform. You'll specifically be expected to:

* Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
* Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.
* Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
* Build fault tolerant systems that perform very large scale data processing and mine insights from data by applying machine learning techniques.
* Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
* Leverage knowledge of internal and industry prior art in design decisions.
* Effectively research and benchmark Amazon technology against other competing systems in the industry.
* Contribute intellectual property through patents.
* Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members
* Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.