Software Dev Manager – Identity & Security at Scale

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); 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 in Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the AWS Identity team's distributed systems that securely manage access across cloud workloads. You will own the technical vision, recruit and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-team programs to deliver scalable identity solutions.

You will drive architecture decisions, balance security with performance, and apply AI-assisted tooling to improve productivity while maintaining high-quality software.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy.
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and product roadmap for your team's services, defining system architecture and aligning priorities across engineering, product management, and partner teams to deliver scalable identity and access management solutions.
• Lead, grow, and mentor a team of software development engineers, setting clear goals, providing actionable feedback, and creating development plans that help each team member advance their career.
• Drive simplifications across your team's systems, leveraging generative AI tooling and automation where appropriate to augment productivity, evaluate outputs for quality, and apply responsible practices in your development workflows.
• Coordinate cross-team programs and manage delivery risks by creating mechanisms to advance those programs, communicating status to stakeholders, and removing roadblocks so your team consistently ships high-quality software on schedule.
• Make system design decisions for distributed services at scale, evaluating tradeoffs in maintainability, performance, and security while ensuring operational health across the software your team owns.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

Architecture design

Distributed systems

Cross-team collaboration

Hiring & mentoring

Job description

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the AWS Identity team's distributed systems that securely manage access across cloud workloads. You will own the technical vision, recruit and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-team programs to deliver scalable identity solutions.

You will drive architecture decisions, balance security with performance, and apply AI-assisted tooling to improve productivity while maintaining high-quality software.