Senior Software Development Manager, Amazon Internal Auth Services

Teamblind, Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Internal Authentication organization seeks a Senior Software Development Manager to lead teams across Dublin, Herndon, and Seattle, building and operating the authentication broker and third-party identity provider used across the company.

You will own the services that enable single sign-on and manage identity and access for non-employee workers, delivering self-service onboarding and broker-mediated authentication advancements across our AI agent ecosystem.

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.

Job description

Amazon's Internal Authentication organization is looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the teams that build and operate the authentication broker and third-party identity provider used across the company. These systems are distinct from Amazon's primary employee identity provider: where that system establishes who you are, the systems you will own determine how that identity is brokered, federated, and extended to the thousands of services and third-party products that make up Amazon's internal ecosystem.

This is a multi-site leadership role spanning Dublin, Herndon, and Seattle. You will own the services that enable single sign-on across a diverse and growing application landscape, manage identity and access for Amazon's non-employee workforce (contractors, partners, and alumni), provide self-service onboarding for application teams integrating with centralized authentication, and extend broker-mediated authentication into Amazon's emerging AI agent ecosystem.

Key job 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 organizati