Software Development Engineer, Identity Services
Amazon · Seattle, Washington, USA ·
- Category
- Software engineering
Identity Services are the guardians of Amazon’s most sacred asset - customer trust! The stakes for us at Amazon have never been greater as Amazon expand more into customers’ daily lives. We enable Amazon businesses to scale by providing secure authentication and authorization solutions in the most possible friction-less manner. We are moving towards the vision where our clients no longer have to choose between sophisticated security and user convenience. Our guiding principle for adaptive authentication is simple; if we suspect a risk in our multiple risk-layer checks, which run quietly in the background, we will deploy the most secure and appropriate available solution, and if we do not, we will let the customer use Amazon unimpeded.
We're seeking a Software Engineer to join our Identity Services team, responsible for authentication and session management systems that serve millions of customers across web, mobile, and device platforms.
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 a minimum of 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 function at a very high level in a fast paced environment along with a team of very talented engineers is essential.
About the team
Auth-Gateway is a team within IdentityServices responsible for session management, customer recognition, and access control across Amazon’s retail ecosystems. The team owns services that process authentication and session validation for hundreds of millions of customers across web, mobile, and device platforms.
We're seeking a Software Engineer to join our Identity Services team, responsible for authentication and session management systems that serve millions of customers across web, mobile, and device platforms.
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 a minimum of 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 function at a very high level in a fast paced environment along with a team of very talented engineers is essential.
About the team
Auth-Gateway is a team within IdentityServices responsible for session management, customer recognition, and access control across Amazon’s retail ecosystems. The team owns services that process authentication and session validation for hundreds of millions of customers across web, mobile, and device platforms.