Software Development Manager Resource and Access Management Amazon Security

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Herndon VA USA

Our team is looking for a highly motivated Software Development Manager (SDM) to lead a software development team in Amazon Security who will raise the security bar by delivering industrybest security services. You should be somebody who enjoys inventing and simplifying around complex security challenges obsesses over the customer experience and feels strongly about delivering results. You should be passionate about solving security hurdles in innovative ways. We do not desire to simply produce good software here at Amazon Security... we want to produce disruptive industryleading innovations.

Key job responsibilities
Each day hundreds of thousands of developers and customers make billions of transactions worldwide on our cloud and the Amazon retail site. The Amazon Security team owns security for all of these services offered by AWS including EC2 S3 and many others as well as the security of our global retail sites.

We are the Resource and Access Management (RAM) organization part of Amazon Foundational Security Services and we strive to provide our customers with secure by default security services which help them discover organize and manage resources while achieving least privilege access control with the least amount of human intervention possible. Our team works across all of Amazon and AWS to solve security challenges at massive scale relating to authorization and access control. We dive deep into security technologies such as new access control design patterns automated workflows and life cycle management to support our customers as Amazon continues to scale and grow.



A day in the life
Amazon has a fastpaced 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 worklife balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here which is why we arent focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead were happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and wellbalanced lifeboth in and outside of work.

About the team
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 hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont 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 Amazons 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 its 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
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledgesharing training and other careeradvancing resources here to help you develop into a betterrounded professional.


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

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
Masters degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent

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