Software Development Manager, AWS Vulnerability Management - Assessment and Response Automation

Amazon • Austin, TX

2d • $184,900 - $250,200 • Onsite

About The Position

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security team is responsible for the security of services offered by AWS. The AWS Vulnerability Management team is responsible for driving innovative enhancements that raise the bar for how AWS employees interact with resources, systems, and data. At AWS' scale, we must invent new security tools to enable system administrators and developers to build rapidly, while maintaining least privileged access.

The successful candidate is one who loves working with engineering and business teams across an entire AWS Security organization to understand their needs, and work with data & business intelligence engineers to design and build solutions that enable service teams to more quickly and effectively access security data. You are passionate about the data and you want to solve real business problems.

As a Software Development Manager you will drive and contribute to the strategy, goals, and requirements for our host operating systems and third party software vulnerability management business. You will work closely with a variety of different groups including Engineering, TPMs, and cross-functional teams to ensure that teams across the organization are equipped with the tools and data resources they need to discover insights and make an impact on the products and experiences we deliver. You will leverage automation and AI will deliver industry leading capabilities that descriptive and predictive analytics, and security engineering to automate complex security work and produce insights to our builders and our customers.

You will need a deeply analytical and systems architecture mindset with the ability to tackle complex challenges and effectively influence stakeholders across AWS Security org. This is a high-impact and high visibility role that requires not only strategic vision and inventing for the customers, but also strong execution, technical depth, analytical rigor, and excellent communication.

Requirements

• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years of engineering team management 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 livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Nice To Haves

• 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
• 2+ years of leading development of applications backed by AWS services or using other cloud based technologies and services experience
• 2+ years of Managing IT security engineering teams in security detections and response, vulnerability management, application security, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Build a best-in-class engineering team that delivers excellent results through rapid iterations
• Design and develop state-of-the-art approaches to solving complex and ambiguous problems
• Cultivate engineering and operational excellence through metrics and continuous learning
• Develop long term strategy for your programs and translate it into roadmap and action plan
• Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management
• Mentor and grow high performing SDEs and security engineers to take on increasingly higher responsibilities

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed