Software Development Manager, Proactive Security

Amazon is seeking a dynamic and experienced software leader to lead our Proactive Security team in building innovative tools and solutions that enhance engineer productivity across our global organization. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

We are looking for outstanding candidates to join us as full-time Software Development Managers. Successful candidates will have led teams that solve complex and broad business problems with simple and straightforward solutions applying appropriate technologies and software engineering best practices building solutions that scaled and performed. You will also have a focus on the customer experience great teamwork and communication skills and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead an Agile team at our development centre in London launching and growing new initiatives for Amazons Proactive Security team. Your team will own the business technology and operations giving you the responsibility and authority to ensure success. You will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation business analysis and technical design through to software development across a variety of technologies. Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability and will operate at massive scale 24x7.

The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills. If you are selected you have the opportunity to really make a difference to our business by inventing enhancing and building world class systems delivering results working on exciting and challenging projects.

Key job responsibilities
Lead and mentor a team of software engineers in developing security-focused productivity tools
Drive the technical vision and roadmap for the team evolving the charter to meet emerging needs
Collaborate with teams globally to identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements
Architect and deliver scalable solutions that leverage data from multiple Amazon sources
Integrate novel GenAI and AI technologies into security tooling and workflows
Ensure high quality maintainable code through proper development practices and testing
Partner with stakeholders across the organization to align team priorities with business objectives

A day in the life
Strategic Leadership (Morning):
Lead global team stand-ups and align daily priorities
Review security metrics and operational health
Drive critical technical decisions and architecture reviews

Stakeholder Management (Mid-day):
Collaborate with product and business leaders on roadmap
Partner with cross-functional teams on integration initiatives
Provide mentorship through 1:1s with team members

Technical & Innovation Focus (Afternoon):
Guide implementation of AI/ML security solutions
Ensure technical excellence through code reviews
Drive strategic planning and resource optimization

The role balances technical leadership people management and strategic planning while working across global time zones to deliver innovative security solutions for Amazon.

About the team
This team within Proactive Security is being formed to close gaps within how engineers consume the vast amounts of application data effectively. This wide charter will work with local security engineers as well as those across the Amazon network.

- Experience managing a team of high calibre Software Engineers developing complex world class scalable software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
- 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 recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers
- Computer Science degree or postgraduate study. In lieu of degree relevant skills and equivalent experience.

- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- 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 the digital advertising or marketing space
- Familiarity with the technical aspects of digital / display advertising
- Experience analyzing business and operational metrics.

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