Amazon Dev Centre Canada ULC Hiring for Software Development Engineer II- Amazon Cognito (Virtual), AWS Cognito at Alberta Full Time

4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

3+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java or C++ including object-oriented design

2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate with developers, product managers, and our customers

Job summary

Imagine a customer wanting to build a new app and allowing their users to upload, view and like photos and using AWS resources for it, Amazon Cognito can bootstrap the authentication and access control for AWS resources using standards such as OIDC, Oauth 2.0 and SAML 2.0 to make life simpler for the developers so they can focus on the what matters for their customers. Amazon Cognito handles sign up, sign in, federation as well as advance security features for your web and mobile users at internet scale. Our team owns the Cognito Authorization and we need brilliant engineers to work with us on making this service this most liked amongst all Identity providers.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will build features to enable developers to rapidly and effortlessly build a secure and easy to use authorization service for end users with a fully featured customer identity experience with strong, adaptive protection mechanisms and access to cutting-edge techniques that help prevent, detect, mitigate and respond to today’s complicated threat landscape. You will be part of a high performing development team that owns end-to-end development for the service. This Role is a virtual role so you are able to work from anywhere in Canada. A successful candidate is a software developer who has demonstrated the ability to solve difficult problems from scratch, can operate independently demonstrating strong judgement in face of technical problems and successfully deliver projects. Ideally, experience with security and/or Identity systems would make it easier to hit the ground running. You will train new team members on how software is constructed, operates and how it fits into the bigger picture. You take pride in writing simple code for complex problems that is secured, performant and stable. If this sounds like you, come join us and help write a new chapter in the computing story for the industry.

We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.

Masters degree in Computer Science equivalent

Understanding of OIDC, OAuth 2.0 and SAML 2.0 protocols

Experience with Authentication and Authorization protocols

Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices

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