Software Development Manager, Differentiated Security Team

We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team in Amazon Security that builds AI-powered services to protect Amazon's expanding business portfolio. You should enjoy inventing around complex security challenges, obsess over customers, and deliver results.

This role owns a service that finds and closes security blind spots across Amazon Stores: gaps in non-standard infrastructure, newly acquired companies, and environments that don't fit existing security tooling.

You will build Gen-AI driven automation that surfaces unknown risks and drives remediation across these environments that have historically lacked security visibility.

This is a ground-floor build. Strong cross-organizational partnership is critical, you will work with security teams across Stores and directly with VPs to drive risk trade-off discussions. If you thrive in
ambiguity, want to build at the intersection of AI and security, and are motivated by protecting parts of Amazon no one else is covering yet, this role is for you.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of software engineers building a Gen-AI powered security product
- Own technical direction, build/buy trade-offs, and system design for AI agents, knowledge bases, and workflow automation
- Partner with M&A security teams, acquired business units, and core security service owners to define requirements and ship solutions
- Drive adoption of the platform across partner organizations along with Product owner
- Translate ambiguous security problems into concrete engineering roadmaps with measurable outcomes
- Present technical strategy and risk trade-offs to Director and VP-level leadership
- Hire, develop, and retain strong engineers in a competitive talent market

A day in the life
Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we “Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.” A typical day on our team involves working with users to design new security features, prototyping and demonstrating features to your users, deploying software through our large automated systems, and operationally supporting your newly deployed software. You will look for new approaches to automate fixes for operational issues. You will also get use AWS services to solve design problems while you interact with Amazon and AWS teams to integrate your application with theirs.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life, both in and outside of work.

About the team
The Differentiated Security Team onboards newly-acquired business units and serves as the Business Security Team (BST) within Stores, Devices, and Other (SDO) supporting a variety of Amazon business units (BU) that do not reside within other established BST organizations. We provide cross-cutting services to integrate security solutions into BU products and services and upholds Amazon’s high security bar. We are a cross functional team of world-class security engineers, software engineers, product managers, applied scientists, and program managers that strive to innovate and drive long-term value for our customers and the company.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering 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

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 recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually