Security Platform Engineering Manager

Amazon

Bellevue (WA)

On-site

USD 185,000 - 250,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon seeks a Software Development Manager for Leo Security to lead the Engineering and R&D team within Leo Infrastructure and IP Security. You will own the full software development lifecycle, drive architectural decisions, and grow a multidisciplinary team to build a neuro-symbolic reasoning platform that grounds automated decisions in verifiable facts.

You will guide design reviews, risk assessments, and on-call responses, while ensuring guardrails, auditable decisions, and scalable incident

Qualifications

3+ years of engineering team management experience.
7+ years of engineering experience.
8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
5+ years of designing, building, and operating distributed systems, including data pipelines, event-driven architectures, or stream processing systems.
Experience leading and influencing your team or organization, or experience in developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU or other AI acceleration hardware.
Experience aligning research, engineering, and operational delivery across science and engineering peers.
Proficiency in at least one of Python, Rust, or Java, with the ability to read, review, and write production code on the team's stack.

Responsibilities

Own the full software development lifecycle for the platform: architecture and design reviews, roadmap planning with science and security peers, code review, and on-call response.
Set technical direction, own delivery across workstreams, recruit and develop the team, and review the hardest changes yourself.
Define model alignment, evaluation, and interaction patterns to ensure auditable, trustworthy automated decisions at scale.
Identify where automation can replace manual security operations while maintaining rigorous controls.
Collaborate with principal engineers and security teams on integration points like telemetry ingestion and deployment.