Security Platforms Engineering Manager

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 203,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Specialized Businesses Security (SBS) Core Engineering team is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the core engineering effort behind production-ready security platforms used by SBS teams and builders across Amazon. You will set the technical direction, translate a demand-driven backlog into a platform roadmap, and build a team that delivers measurable security outcomes at Amazon scale.

You will collaborate with AI security teams, vulnerability intelligence, and builder teams

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting multi-tier systems.
• 8+ years leading definition and development of multi-tier web services.
• Knowledge of SDLC practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build, testing, and livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap, architecture, and operational health of a portfolio of security platforms used by security teams and builders across Amazon.
• Turn AI security capability built by a partner research team into self-service production services with API, IDE, and build-pipeline integration.
• Work backwards from SBS security teams and builder teams to set priorities across competing requests, and say no to work that does not meet the bar.
• Build, hire, and develop a team of software engineers; delegate ownership of components and grow engineers into technical leads.
• Drive integrations into platforms your team does not own, and manage the upstream dependencies that put your commitments at risk.
• Define and report on the metrics that matter: adoption, precision, time from finding to fix, and engineering hours removed from security operations.
• Represent the team in business reviews, operating plans, and cross-org prioritization discussions.

Skills

Team management

Engineering experience

System design

Web services

SDLC knowledge

PM partnership

Job description

Amazon's Specialized Businesses Security (SBS) Core Engineering team is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the core engineering effort behind production-ready security platforms used by SBS teams and builders across Amazon. You will set the technical direction, translate a demand-driven backlog into a platform roadmap, and build a team that delivers measurable security outcomes at Amazon scale.

You will collaborate with AI security teams, vulnerability intelligence, and builder teams