Software Development Engineer, AWS Identity, IAM Data Plane - Credentials Distribution Systems
Amazon
Full-time
other-general
Location
Seattle, WA, United States
Posted
June 03, 2026
Job Description
Description
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...
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...