Software Development Engineer, AWS Identity, IAM Data Plane - Credentials Distribution Systems
Amazon - Seattle, Washington, USA
Posted May 14, 2026
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Software Development Engineer, AWS Identity, IAM Data Plane - Credentials Distribution Systems Seattle, Washington, USA What does it take to distribute billions of security credentials every day to every host across Amazon's infrastructure - without ever going down? That's the challenge at the core of this role. As a Software Development Engineer on the AWS Credentials Distribution Systems (CreDS) team, you'll build and operate the IAM role credential distribution platform for Amazon's internal infrastructure - a tier-0 system that every single service team across the company depends on. Your work ensures that hosts receive short-lived, least-privilege credentials seamlessly, eliminating the operational burden of credential rotation at Amazon's scale. Your primary focus will be keeping this system secure, scalable, and resilient - designing for failure and driving automation. You'll also work backwards from internal customers to simplify credential management, building features and tooling that make adoption seamless and effortless for service teams. Strong ownership and operational excellence are essential to succeed in this role. If you're passionate about distributed systems, cloud security, and building infrastructure that thousands of teams depend on every day, this is the role for you. Key job responsibilities - Design, build, and operate a tier-0 credential distribution system that serves every service team across Amazon's internal infrastructure - Own and continuously improve system reliability, scalability, and security - proactively identifying risks and building mechanisms to prevent recurring issues - Work backwards from internal customers to simplify credential management, building features and tooling that make adoption seamless and
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