Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on state of the art distributed systems? Do you love working on industry defining projects that move the needle? At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The intense focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA. We are looking for software engineers who thrive on complex problems and relish the challenge of operating a complex and mission critical system that serves millions of requests per minute.

As an SDE-2 on the UnifiedAuth team, you will work on cloud security problems with the goal of securing customer and corporate communication across all of Amazon. You will contribute to all parts of the software development and deployment lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing and operations. You will learn and grow by solving one of the most complex technical challenges in the areas of distributed systems, data mining, automation, optimization, scalability, and security. You will coach junior engineers in team on technical design, code quality, and delivery. Furthermore, you will partner with your manager and business stakeholders to deliver long-term results including customer experience, software quality, business requirements, and maintainability of both your team’s and related team's product(s).


Key job responsibilities
1) Learn by collaboration with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians in the team to develop, design, and bring to market cloud security products ·
2) Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry ·
3) Improve operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain. ·
4) Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use

About the team
Unified Authorization is responsible for securing customer and corporate communication across all of Amazon. Whether it's the retail website, Alexa, or Kindle, we ensure actors are authenticated and authorized to take the requested action. Unified Authorization owns and operates CloudAuth and Transitive Auth—foundational security products enabling secure service-to-service communication and fine-grained access control (FGAC) for protecting customer data. With every aspect of Amazon's business relying on our systems, we're at the forefront of resiliency and availability at an unprecedented scale.

Our products are used by more than 35,000 Amazon services owned by 5,000 teams across various departments, including Stores, Devices (Alexa and Ring), IMDB, Prime Video, Advertising, Selling Partners, Pharmacy, Ordering and Payments, Fulfillment Centers, and internal systems.