Software Development Manager, Proactive Security (Level 6)

The Amazon Devices and Services team designs and engineers high-profile devices and consumer experiences including the best-selling Kindle family of products, offerings such as Amazon Photos and groundbreaking devices like Amazon Echo, Fire tablets, Amazon Fire TV, Echo Show, Echo Spot. How will you help us build software tooling to secure customer experiences and data?

The Proactive Security (ProSec) team is building the next generation of mission critical security systems to protect Amazon assets. These include standalone tools for security reviews (e.g., intake and data classification), paved paths (e.g., libraries for embedded systems) as well as integrating plugins in tools used by product teams. We experiment and build innovative tools to identify and address key customer pain points. Our customers are Amazon development teams, internal security teams, and Amazon’s customers. Our engineers work directly with stakeholders, get close to customers' needs, and are empowered to take technical risks to build the best-in-class software with respect to quality, scale, and insights. The technical foundation this team builds, helps keep all of Amazon Devices including business units (Alexa, FireTV, Kindle, Ring, etc.) secure.

We are looking for an experienced dynamic manager who has a passion to make internal business teams successful. The ideal candidate has deep technical experience, preferably in AWS technologies, strong verbal and written communication, and excels at balancing priorities between a near-term and long-term focus. Prior experience building preventive solutions (e.g., paved paths), driving their adoption, and extending builder tools to vend security guidance is strongly desired. They know how to position their team to meet consistent shifting demands of the business. We desire someone who is passionate about coaching, and helping engineers achieve their desired potential, while getting hands on with designs to shape the team's high scale systems.


Key job responsibilities
- You will manage and mentor a high performing team of Software Development Engineers, Security Engineers and Technical Program Managers. Foster a collaborative environment, conduct performance reviews, and promote professional growth.
- You will define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for our Preventive Plugin Platform and experimental tooling workstream, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to align on requirements and priorities.
- You will review architecture design and oversee software development of highly scalable systems.
- You will communicate technical concepts, project status, and risk assessments to stakeholders at all levels, both technical and non-technical.
- You will ensure that security is integrated throughout the software development lifecycle, from design to deployment and promote continuous innovation to enhance the security, performance, and scalability of our cloud-based solutions.

A day in the life
As the manager of the team you own vision and mission of the team. You will attend daily operations calls, team standups, and meet with stakeholders regarding short-term/long-term projects. You will weekly meet with your team to discuss their career goals, and passions. You will lead operational excellence initiatives. You will partner with your senior team members to create architectures that will scale for the long term. You will provide guidance to senior leaders on long-term technical strategies and approaches to solve problems within your domain.

About the team
The team is led by a tenured Amazon leader and this role will manage a team of 6. They will lead the charge on extending a highly visible tool as well as ideate and own build out of a new platform to vend proactive security guidance to builders.

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

- 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 many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
- Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, VA, Herndon - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually