Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Cognito
DESCRIPTION
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 and help AWS write a new chapter in the consumer identity story for the industry.
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
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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.