Software Development Manager, Amazon Security

About the role

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: San Diego, CA USA

The team is looking for an experienced Software Development Manager (SDM) to lead a software development team in Amazon Security.

Key job responsibilities

• Raise the security bar by delivering industry-best security services
• Enjoy inventing and simplifying around complex security challenges
• Obsess over the customer experience
• Feel strongly about delivering results
• Be passionate about solving security hurdles in innovative ways
• Work with users to design new security features
• Prototype and demonstrate features to users
• Deploy software through large automated systems
• Operate and support newly deployed software
• Look for new approaches to automate fixes for operational issues
• Solve design problems using AWS services
• Interact with Amazon and AWS teams to integrate applications with theirs

About The Team

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 live-site operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

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
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent