Software Development Engineer, Security Token Service (STS)

$129,300 - $223,600/Yr

Amazon - Fall City, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Fall City, WA

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About the position

The Software Development Engineer II position at Amazon Web Services (AWS) focuses on building, delivering, and maintaining complex software products within the Security Token Service (STS) team. This role involves designing fault-tolerant systems that operate at massive scale, solving challenging technical problems, and contributing to the development of industry-wide identity federation solutions. The position emphasizes collaboration across diverse teams and projects to create innovative software solutions that enhance service performance, durability, cost, and security.

Responsibilities

• Solve challenging technical problems at every layer of the stack.
• Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative software solutions.
• Build high-quality, highly available, always-on products.
• Research implementations that deliver the best possible experiences for customers.
• Create metrics, implement automation, and resolve the root cause of software defects.
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work cross-functionally to drive business decisions with technical input.

Requirements

• 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Nice-to-haves

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 3+ years of building complex software systems experience.
• Understanding of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST.
• Understanding of Federated Authentication, SAML, OAuth, OpenId, Multi Factor Authentication.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, financial, and other benefits.
• Equity and sign-on payments as part of total compensation package.