Senior Software Engineer focused on LDAP based identity systems within AFSS Identity at Amazon. This role oversees architecture, lifecycle management, observability, and on call mentorship for LDAP ecosystems including 389DS, REGAL, Read Proxy, Time Machine, and Identity Data Lake.
Responsibilities
- Lead the REGAL regionalized architecture: read/write fleet split, Regal Replicator, and ORR through full partition coverage
- Own 389DS software lifecycle: upgrade train, master fleet replication, schema management across commercial, GovCloud, ADC, China, and MVP
- Drive pipeline driven automated region builds, eliminating manual ceremony from partition expansion
- Lead schema evolution discipline: document every attribute, analyze consumer impact end-to-end before every change
- Architect and evolve the LDAP Read Proxy: schema-routed access, expansion to BRASS and additional backends, transparent to existing callers
- Own GSAM as the system-account control plane across LDAP, POSIX, ANT : lifecycle management, credential rotation, ANT auto-provisioning, and the path to passwordless system accounts
- Own LDAP Time Machine and the Identity Data Lake: snapshot pipelines, S3 vending, cross-region log analytics, and IdP security intelligence
- Set the observability standard across every access path - direct, proxied, historical, analytical, consistent telemetry, uniform authorization
- Serve as Tier-1 on-call anchor for directory availability and replication health
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across both teams
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Technologies
- LDAP, 389DS LDAP, REGAL, Read Proxy, Time Machine, Identity Data Lake, GSAM, ANT, IdP security intelligence, S3, BRASS, POSIX, ORR
Benefits
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
A Day in the Life
You'll start by reviewing system metrics and addressing any operational issues affecting our Identity services. Throughout the day, you'll collaborate with Identity and Access Management service teams to design features, participate in architecture reviews for scalability improvements, and write high-performance code to handle authentication and authorization requests across Amazon's services. You'll also mentor team members through code reviews and contribute to strategic planning for next-gene
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