Software Dev Engineer II, Amazon

Identity Services owns the systems that enable authenticating and identifying every Amazon customer in the world. Every aspect of the Amazon global business depends on our systems to know who the customer is, and if our systems are not up and running, the company stops. We balance keeping our systems fast, scalable and performant (no exceptions!) with rapidly delivering great features for Amazon customers and our developer partners. In short, we get to own and innovate on a critical customer experience while also supporting nearly every other business at the company; the best of both worlds
Identity Services provide the core services that identify, authenticate and authorize our customers, and provide the information to hundreds of services within the Amazon service-oriented architecture. We manage the customer authentication and authorization experience, and are embarking on new and exciting initiatives in this space, both on the web and on mobile devices. If you are excited about solving new business problems using state-of-the-art technologies, and open standards such as OpenId and Oauth, or developing applications and frameworks for mobile platforms, wed love to talk to you.
Identity Services is looking for software engineers who like to solve complex problems, and relish the challenges of building and operating complex, distributed, mission critical systems under extreme loads. Our systems manage hundreds of millions of records, and serve millions of service requests. Do you think you are up to the challenge? We are looking for builders who are passionate about building secure and intuitive customer experiences and who love the challenge of building performant and robust systems at scale. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are innovative, and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems then we want you as a Software Development Engineer for Amazons eCommerce Platform Identity Services group.

Key job responsibilities
Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
Responsible for portions of the systems architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance
Lead software developers in design, implementation and operations
Be very hands-on, participate in designs, reviews and develop code
Real-time operational support of the team s functional areas
Maintain current technical knowledge to advance thought leadership and technology breakthroughs
Must be able to work with minimal technical supervision and supplemental engineering support, while responding efficiently to multiple program priorities
Works well in a team environment and be able to effectively drive cross-team solutions that have complex dependencies and requirements


A day in the life
Duties will include design, implementation, documentation, support and operations of various facets of Identity Services. We are looking for self-starters who are interested in leading new initiatives. Successful candidates must also be innovative, creative, flexible, self-directed, and able to design and write high-performance, robust and maintainable code. They must have excellent verbal and written communication skills. The ability to function at a very high level in a fast paced environment along with a team of very talented engineers is essential. - 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
- Bachelors degree or equivalent