Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Directory Service

Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Directory Service

Job ID: 2783429 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

AWS Directory Service is a fully managed service that allows customers to set up and run Active Directory in the AWS cloud. It’s a high-scale, highly available distributed system supporting sub-second latency micro-services to a large growing customer base. We support the scale of millions of requests per second and the service needs to be always available. As a managed offering, we take care of building and maintaining a secure, complex, highly available directory topology for our customers to easily manage their users, groups and resources. We also facilitate automated monitoring, fail-over and recovery, along with automated patching, updates and replication.

As part of the AWS Identity organization, we are pioneers in areas such as identity, access management, security and providing massively scaled, distributed platform capabilities to all of AWS. Our mission is to build the most secure, reliable, scalable and performant authentication and authorization platform on the planet, which enables every AWS customer to have secure access to their resources. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world, and we need passionate engineers like you to work with us on this mission!

As a Software Development Engineer (SDE), you’ll be part of a truly innovative team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You’ll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success. You will design and build the operational scalability that sustains the platform’s insane growth.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 7+ 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 7+ 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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