Our teams focus areas include: Enterprise Access risk reduction, access health best practices, managing preventive and detective access health controls. Our mission includes instilling awareness and controls to safeguard all customer and employee data, applications, services, and assets. To accomplish this, we unite with Amazon organizations to identify access risks and manage them pro-actively.
This role is for a Sr. Software Development Engineer - Identity & Access Management (IAM) who will work on building and support products focused on creating and maintaining authentication and authorization posture of Amazon and its subsidiaries. It involves processing vast data sources, utilizing bleeding edge GenAI technologies to derive access patterns and presenting them to various stakeholders via a consolidated product layer.
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Software Development Engineer in the IAM space, you will work on the development of existing IAM products aimed at enhancing and optimizing the access risk posture.
A day in the life
Your day-to-day job responsibilities will include:
• Drive the design, implementation and deployment of efficient, robust products to deliver access risk lifecycle management capabilities.
• Adopt an iterative, continuous improvement approach to release and deploy product features.
• Work in an agile environment, collaborate with peers on designs, technical refinements, code reviews, testing and customer issues.
• Develop/ adopt testing frameworks and implement test plans to improve code quality and facilitate continuous delivery.
• Build reusable code patterns including API’s, libraries, SDK’s etc.
• Lead design reviews to ensure all software development efforts are tactically aligned.
• Mentor fellow engineers and drive engineering excellence.
About the team
A very close knit team based out of Austin, Seattle and Dallas. Great working environment with working on high impact problem statements and collaborating with security engineers within and outside the organization.
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, and able to communicate with a non-technical audience.
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