Join our Amazon Security Experience (ASE) Team as a Manager of Software Development, where you'll lead efforts to deliver a converged Security Review Experience for all Amazonians. This critical role requires a strategic leader who can work across Amazon's diverse businesses, understanding their unique needs and building tools that optimize their ability to develop secure software and hardware services.

Your expertise in communication, security knowledge, and proven experience delivering technical solutions at cloud scale will be instrumental in ensuring that all builders across Amazon meet the Amazon Security Bar. You'll collaborate with teams throughout the company, gaining exposure to diverse technologies while making a significant impact on Amazon's security posture.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and successful delivery of large-scale software initiatives that create a converged security review experience across Amazon, balancing tactical needs against strategic goals.
- Build and nurture a high-performing engineering team through effective hiring, coaching, and career development while fostering an inclusive environment where engineers collaborate to achieve ambitious goals.
- Partner with multiple teams across Amazon's diverse businesses to understand their unique workflows and develop tools that enhance their ability to build secure software and hardware services.
- Establish audit mechanisms and metrics to measure your team's performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and communicate progress to stakeholders across the organization.
- Create mechanisms to scale security review processes, delegating effectively while maintaining ownership and staying connected to the technical details that ensure all Amazon builders meet the security bar.

A day in the life
The Amazon Security Experience (ASE) Team is dedicated to building tools that ensure builders across Amazon create software and hardware services that meet the Amazon Security Bar. Our mission is critical to protecting Amazon's customers, data, and systems through consistent security practices. We work with teams spanning every corner of Amazon, which gives our team members exposure to diverse technologies and business domains while making a significant impact on the company's overall security posture. As we continue to innovate, we're focused on creating scalable, intuitive solutions that make security best practices accessible to all builders.

Your day begins with a stand-up meeting where your team provides updates on current security tool development projects. You'll spend time reviewing architecture proposals for new security review features, then meet with business teams to understand their specific workflows and security needs. In the afternoon, you might analyze usage metrics of existing security tools to identify improvement opportunities, collaborate with partner teams on integration points, and provide coaching to team members on complex security challenges.

About the team
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.