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Software Development Manager, Nextgen Security Automation
Amazon
Software Engineering
Austin, TX, USA
Posted on Mar 7, 2025
DESCRIPTION
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.
Lead the future of security automation at Amazon by building and directing teams that leverage agentic AI systems to protect one of the world's largest technology ecosystems. You'll be at the forefront of developing proactive autonomous security capabilities that safeguard Amazon's infrastructure, customers, and innovations at global scale.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of software engineers developing AI-powered security automation solutions.
- Own the technical vision and architecture for next-generation security products.
- Drive strategic technical decisions in partnership with senior leadership.
- Establish and maintain high standards for engineering excellence and operational performance.
- Collaborate across Amazon's ecosystem to deliver security solutions that scale with our business. Mentor and develop engineering talent while building a strong technical culture.
A day in the life
You kick off the day with your morning coffee or tea, before diving into the future of autonomous security at Amazon. You ponder incredibly bold goals with your partners and coach your team to set the bar high. You then direct the development of these intelligent, next-generation security systems at Amazon scale. Working alongside world-class security engineers and scientists, you automate security that protects millions of customers across one of the world's largest tech ecosystems.
About the team
About Amazon Security:
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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in leading the definition and development of multi tier web services
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
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
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, 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.