Senior Identity & Access Engineering Manager

Amazon Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 298,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Senior Software Development Manager for Internal Auth Services based in Herndon, VA will lead three site teams and own the technical strategy for authentication and identity management. You will drive delivery, build scalable systems, and partner with security and policy teams to align with company risk goals.

You will hire and mentor engineers, shape engineering culture across geographies, and communicate roadmap priorities to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience.
• 5+ years of engineering team management experience.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
• Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow multiple software development teams across three sites, building a unified engineering culture across geographies and time zones.
• Own the technical strategy, roadmap, and delivery for authentication brokering, third-party identity management, and application onboarding.
• Build and operate systems at Amazon scale with the reliability expectations that come with being in the critical path of nearly every internal service.
• Partner closely with security, compliance, and policy teams to ensure access controls keep pace with a growing and evolving threat landscape.
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs between usability and security, knowing that friction in authentication has real costs to productivity and that gaps in authentication have real costs to the company.
• Hire, develop, and retain strong engineering talent across all three sites, with particular attention to building leadership depth and technical bench strength.
• Represent your organization's priorities and technical direction to senior leadership, translating complex identity and access problems into clear business terms.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Agile development

System design

Multi-team program management

Job description

Amazon Senior Software Development Manager for Internal Auth Services based in Herndon, VA will lead three site teams and own the technical strategy for authentication and identity management. You will drive delivery, build scalable systems, and partner with security and policy teams to align with company risk goals.

You will hire and mentor engineers, shape engineering culture across geographies, and communicate roadmap priorities to senior leadership.