Senior Software Development Manager , Access Management Services

Amazons Access Management Services (AMS) organization builds and operates the authorization backbone for all of Amazon. Our services govern who and what can access resources across the company from group membership and ownership to policy evaluation and contingent authorization to access lifecycle management. We secure authorization decisions at Amazon scale. Security is our top priority but we also obsess over availability latency and cost-to-serve for the teams that depend on us.

AMS is looking for an experienced Senior Software Development Manager to lead the organization that builds owns and operates Amazons attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy services. Your team defines how authorization policies are expressed evaluated and enforced across Amazon making access decisions for every service and workflow that touches protected resources. You will own Tier-1 services foundational to Amazons operations while driving a shift from manual team-by-team policy configuration toward intelligent defaults and automated guardrails that reduce friction for builders without compromising the security bar. This is a hard problem ABAC policy must be expressive enough to cover wildly diverse authorization use cases reliable enough to bear deep operational dependencies and performant enough to operate at a scale where even small design choices have outsized blast radius.

This team is in the middle of a fundamental acceleration. The rise of agentic AI across Amazon is reshaping how authorization works and how we build it. Were applying generative AI to compress our own development cycles transform how we operate Tier-1 services and deliver new AI-native authorization capabilities that let Amazons businesses safely adopt agentic workloads at speed. If you love transforming legacy processes building high-performing teams and operating at a pace that matches the moment this role will fit. Youll have substantial visibility with senior executives and the mandate to move fast. Youll need strong instincts for security outcomes paired with a passion for customer experience and the technical depth to guide and riase the bar on principal engineers SDEs and development managers on system design incremental delivery and operational excellence.


This role invents and delivers for internal customers and is inherently cross-functional and requires the ability to think big and collaborate with others as you work closely with teams across engineering operations finance and security. We are looking for a critical thinker who thrives on solving challenges in partnership with teams across Amazon.


Key job responsibilities
You make high-judgment decisions at speed seeking the right inputs without waiting for perfect information

You dig into hard ambiguous problems and dont flinch at complex distributed systems

You lead through your people not over them challenging teams to find the answer while knowing exactly when to step in with structure and urgency

You expect effort reward results and hold yourself to the same bar

You follow the data think strategically about where the world is going and still dive deep to stay close to tactical execution

You have a healthy intolerance for the status quo youd rather redesign a system than patch around its limitations

You juggle competing priorities without dropping quality in a fast-moving environment

You build trust quickly with senior stakeholders and partner teams who depend on your services



About the team

Diverse Experiences
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- 10 years of engineering experience
- 5 years of engineering team management experience
- 10 years of planning designing developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs projects and development teams in an Agile environment

- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale high-traffic applications

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA San Diego - 220100.00 - 297700.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 220100.00 - 297700.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 220100.00 - 297700.00 USD annually