Engineering Manager, Real-Time DDoS Defense Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 184,900 - 250,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Shield is seeking a leader to grow a software engineering team focused on DDoS detection and mitigation for the global cloud. You will define strategy, drive architecture, and ensure high availability and low latency during active attacks.

Join a diverse, fast-moving group protecting billions of requests daily, balancing scale with incident response, automation, and collaboration with product, security, and networking teams across AWS.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience in engineering team management
• Experience in engineering
• Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
• Experience partnering with product and program management teams

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of software engineers building AWS Shield's DDoS detection and mitigation systems
• Define technical strategy and roadmap for scalable, real-time threat protection services
• Drive architecture decisions for distributed systems operating at massive network scale
• Own operational excellence — ensure high availability, low latency, and rapid incident response during active attacks
• Partner with product, security, and networking teams to translate customer needs into engineering deliverables
• Establish engineering best practices including code quality, testing, CI/CD, and on-call processes
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineers across multiple levels; foster a culture of ownership and innovation
• Manage sprint planning, prioritization, and delivery against pressing timelines
• Analyze DDoS threat landscape and drive proactive improvements to detection algorithms and mitigation capabilities
• Communicate technical progress, risks, and trade-offs to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Balance long-term platform investments with short-term operational demands
• Champion automation to reduce toil and improve system resilience

Skills

Engineering practices

Team management

Engineering

Multi-tier web services

Product management collaboration

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Shield is seeking a leader to grow a software engineering team focused on DDoS detection and mitigation for the global cloud. You will define strategy, drive architecture, and ensure high availability and low latency during active attacks.

Join a diverse, fast-moving group protecting billions of requests daily, balancing scale with incident response, automation, and collaboration with product, security, and networking teams across AWS.