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Software Development Engineer, AWS IAM Distributed Database System

Seattle, Washington, United States💼 Full-time💰 $143,700–$194,400🗓 2026-06-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to handle massive traffic with millisecond latency.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (distributed systems)

Builds

Next generation IAM systems for AWS cloud customers

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, identity and access management

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

distributed systems design, high-performance system building, low-latency request processing, fault tolerance, multi-tenancy architecture, API design, operational sustainability, flaky test elimination, microservices architecture

Preferred skills

full software development life cycle experience, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, operations experience

Technologies

AWS IAM, distributed databases, microservices

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable IAM systems, implement low-latency request processing, ensure high availability and fault tolerance, create and maintain APIs, optimize operational sustainability

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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