Director IAM, Amazon Foundational Security Services
About the role
Amazon Foundational Security Services (AFSS) delivers internal cross-Amazon security solutions for identity and access management, authorization, and authentication. We support the full stack of internal security from host bootstrapping, service authentication, human multi-factor authentication, and resource authorization. Security is our top priority, but we also obsess with availability, scale, and cost-to-serve. AFSS is looking for an experienced Director of Software Development to help us transform the way we create and maintain access controls across Amazon. You will be responsible for operating Tier-1 services that are foundational to Amazon operations and establishing a new vision and approach for enabling business agility while improving the security bar. Our vision is to remove the burden of manual configuration from the vast majority of configurations, removing friction from builders while improving the security bar. This is particularly challenging given the diverse use cases we support, the existing operational dependencies, and the scale at which we operate. If you love transforming business processes, moving quickly, and building high performing teams, you will be a good fit. This role has substantial visibility with our senior executives and is a great fit for a leader who thrives on moving quickly. You will need to understand security outcomes and have a passion for excellent customer experience.
Key job responsibilities
- Draw from your deep and broad technical expertise to guide software engineers, principal engineers, and development managers on system design, incremental delivery, and operational excellence
- Define and deliver on industry-leading technology initiatives including the use of generative AI to accelerate development efforts, transform service operations, and shipping AI authorization feature to enable the business to continue to leverage agentic AI
- Invent and simplify experiences for internal customers
- Work closely with teams across engineering, operations, finance, and security in this inherently cross-functional role
- Think big and collaborate with others to solve challenges in partnership with teams across Amazon
Professional traits
- High judgment decision-maker who actively seeks input from others to make high-velocity decisions
- Curious, likes to dig into hard, complex problems and technologies
- Servant leader
- Likes to challenge their customers and teams to solve a problem, knowing when to step in and provide structure and urgency to move the business forward quickly
- Expects effort and rewards results
- Structured, analytical problem solver
- Follows the data
- Thinks strategically and long term, but willingly and naturally dives deep and stays on top of tactical execution
- Holds self and teams to a high standard
- Healthy intolerance for the status quo. Like to shake things up and contemplate the impossible
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Exceptional customer relationship skills
Basic qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in information security, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics or related discipline, or 12+ years' equivalent technology experience
- 8+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of delivery leading software development teams
Preferred qualifications
- 5+ years experience managing and building software with very high availability and operational excellence requirements
- Understanding information security, privacy frameworks, and compliance requirements
- Ability to effectively coordinate between technical teams and business stakeholders
- Strong ability to build alignment to your teams' vision across diverse business leaders
- Ability to drive enterprise-scale changes to existing systems
- Effective written and oral communication with multiple levels of leadership involving both business and technical sides of the business
Pay
- USA, VA, Herndon: $264,100.00 - $350,000.00 USD annually
- Package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Final compensation determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location
Benefits
- 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
- Parental leave