Security Platform Engineering Manager (LLM & Graph)

Amazon; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an experienced software development manager to lead the Engineering and R&D team within Leo Infrastructure and IP Security. You will own the full software development lifecycle for a security platform spanning architecture reviews, roadmaps, design reviews, and live-site response.

Build and mentor a multidisciplinary team of software engineers, scientists, and security engineers. You will drive model alignment, evaluation, and automated decision trust at scale, collaborating

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 experience.
• 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, operational excellence, on-call and live-site response.
• Set technical direction, own delivery across every workstream, recruit and develop the team, and stay hands-on in design and reviews.
• Define model alignment, evaluation, and interaction patterns that make automated decisions trustworthy at scale; ensure rigorous controls.

Skills

Engineering management

Software engineering

Distributed systems

LLMs in production

Python/Rust/Java

Team leadership

Research & engineering alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Job description

Amazon is seeking an experienced software development manager to lead the Engineering and R&D team within Leo Infrastructure and IP Security. You will own the full software development lifecycle for a security platform spanning architecture reviews, roadmaps, design reviews, and live-site response.

Build and mentor a multidisciplinary team of software engineers, scientists, and security engineers. You will drive model alignment, evaluation, and automated decision trust at scale, collaborating