Key job responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain core services that power device identity and state management for AWS IoT Core, serving billions of devices worldwide
Build and operate highly available, low-latency distributed systems that handle device provisioning, authentication, metadata and state management
Own the full software development lifecycle — from requirements gathering and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations
Write high-quality, well-tested code and participate in code reviews to maintain a high engineering bar across the team
Contribute to system architecture by authoring and reviewing design documents, identifying trade-offs, and proposing solutions to complex technical problems
Improve operational excellence by building monitoring, alarming, and automation tooling; participate in on-call rotations and drive root cause analysis for operational events
Collaborate cross-functionally with other AWS IoT teams to deliver integrated customer experiences
Mentor and support fellow engineers through knowledge sharing, design discussions, and constructive code reviews
Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes, developer productivity, and system efficiency, including leveraging AI to automate workflows, enhance testing, and accelerate delivery
A day in the life
You'll spend focused time writing code — building new APIs, tuning system performance to reduce latency at billion-device scale, or improving provisioning workflows. You'll collaborate with teammates through design reviews and code reviews, and partner with other IoT Core teams on cross-cutting features. Some days you'll dig into customer escalations, tracing issues through logs and metrics. Other days you'll experiment with AI tools to improve engineering processes. No two days are the same, but every day you're building the foundation that enables billions of devices to connect to AWS IoT.
The Identity and Registry team owns the foundational services at the core of AWS IoT — device identity, registry, shadow, and provisioning. We build and operate systems that enable billions of devices to securely connect, be managed, and interact with the cloud. Our team values operational excellence, customer obsession, and a strong ownership culture where every engineer has a direct impact. We're a collaborative group that enjoys tackling hard distributed systems problems together, and we're committed to growing each other through mentorship and open technical debate. We're looking for builders who are excited to work at IoT scale.
About the team
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3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles
Experience debugging, profiling, and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems
Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
Master's degree or above in Computer Science or other related discipline
Experience with IoT protocols and standards (MQTT, TLS/mTLS, X.509 certificates)
Familiarity with device identity management, provisioning workflows, or PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
Knowledge of security best practices including authentication, authorization, encryption at rest/in transit, and credential rotation
Experience designing and operating registry-style services (metadata stores, device/asset catalogs) at high throughput and low latency
Experience with DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases at scale, including data modeling and performance tuning
Familiarity with API design (REST, gRPC) and building public-facing service APIs with backward compatibility
Experience with operational excellence practices — monitoring, alarming, on-call, runbook authoring
Exposure to load balancing, traffic shaping, or deployment strategies
Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading technical projects end-to-end
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USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
