Senior Software Engineer, Amazon Cognito, Amazon Cognito

Security is an important consideration for customers moving to the cloud, and all applications need identity solution for end users. Amazon Cognito helps customers secure the most critical user data including credentials of the users of their applications. We provide easy to use authentication, authorization, and user management for web and mobile apps, either directly with a user name and password, or through a third party identity provider such as Facebook, Amazon, or Google.

Increasingly more applications are going digital and the demand for a secure digital identity for the consumers of these applications is growing. Existing digital applications are looking to improve their consumer’s identity by moving to a cloud based solution which is more secure, scalable, standards compliant and removes the need for them to hire identity experts. Amazon Cognito is on a mission to reinvent how users authenticate by reducing the user friction and at the same time increasing the security of the process. This will involve reimagining how authentication should work and how it can get smarter in determining the security posture of each request an end user makes.

We are looking for leaders to work with us on this journey and help us tackle new challenges. As a Software Development Engineer, you will build features to enable AWS developers to rapidly and effortlessly build an easy to use, frictionless sign-in and signup experiences for their customers, providing an always-on internet scale (billions of requests in a day!) authentication and authorization for end users with a fully featured customer identity experience with strong, adaptive protection mechanisms and access to cutting-edge techniques that help prevent, detect, mitigate and respond to today's complicated threat landscape. You will be part of a high performing development team that owns end-to-end development for the service.

A successful candidate is a senior technical leader who will establish technical standards and drive overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and engineering methodologies. You will work on our hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. We work as part of a larger team. In this role, you will collaborate with Principal and Senior Principal Engineers from across Amazon. You are a strong technical leader who effectively partners with other technical leaders, understands the big picture, drives prioritization, builds consensus and rallies the team behind it. You will be owning engineering challenges across multiple 2 pizza teams.

If this sounds like you, come join us in Seattle and help AWS write a new chapter in the consumer identity story for the industry.


Key job responsibilities
* Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader
* Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale systems engineering, building complex distributed systems, identity, or security systems.
* Demonstrated experience leading complex projects from concept to launch.
* Demonstrated experience playing a visionary leadership role within a large organization.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information concisely to executives and non-technical leaders.
* Domain-level practical knowledge of Identity Standards.



About the team
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
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