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Software Development Engineer, AWS Cognito, AWS Cognito

Amazon· AWS Cognito
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Seattle, WA$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

AWS Cognito is a high-profile AWS Identity service handling billions of authentication requests. The role involves designing, building, and operating highly available, low-latency authentication services with AI-native tooling, end-to-end ownership, and a startup-like culture within AWS.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate highly available, low-latency authentication services that real customers depend on 24/7.
  • Own features end-to-end design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations—for services in the Cognito User Auth space (sign-in, tokens, devices, and related data planes).
  • Raise the bar on operational excellence: measurable availability, latency, and security improvements, and automation that removes manual work.
  • Work AI-native: engage AI first, and build and extend the team's own agentic tooling for development, code review, and operational investigation.
  • Dive deep on ambiguous, production-impacting problems and drive them to a root cause and a durable fix.
  • Collaborate across AWS Identity teams and mentor other engineers.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
  • 1+ years 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

Skills

Required:Software developmentProgramming languages
Nice to have:Software development life cycle

Benefits

  • base salary with sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, with options for Supplemental life plans), EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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