Senior Manager, Identity & Authentication Platform (SSO)

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 298,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Internal Authentication organization seeks a Senior Software Development Manager to lead teams that build and operate the authentication broker and third-party identity provider used across the company. You will own services enabling single sign-on, manage identity for non-employee workers, and support onboarding for applications integrating with centralized authentication.

As a senior leader, you will shape technical strategy across three sites, mentor engineers, and collaborate with

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 program management

Large-scale systems design

Multi-site leadership

Job description

Amazon's Internal Authentication organization seeks a Senior Software Development Manager to lead teams that build and operate the authentication broker and third-party identity provider used across the company. You will own services enabling single sign-on, manage identity for non-employee workers, and support onboarding for applications integrating with centralized authentication.

As a senior leader, you will shape technical strategy across three sites, mentor engineers, and collaborate with