Amazon

Software Development Engineer, AWS Cognito, AWS Cognito

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24 hours ago
Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$144k - $194k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate highly available, low-latency authentication services used by real customers 24/7.
  • Own Cognito User Auth features end to end, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.
  • Improve availability, latency, security, and operational automation.
  • Build and extend AI-agent tooling for development, code review, and operational investigation.
  • Investigate ambiguous production-impacting problems, identify root causes, and implement durable fixes.
  • Collaborate across AWS Identity teams and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 2 years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
  • At least 1 year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
  • Preferred: at least 3 years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: experience contributing to architecture and design for reliability and scaling of new and existing systems.
  • Preferred: experience leveraging AI agents for security review automation, spec-driven development, or adversarial red teaming.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, and flexible spending benefits.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • The package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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