Software Development Manager, IAM

Amazon • Arlington, VA

9d • $184,900 - $250,200 • Onsite

About The Position

Do you love building products that impact millions of people around the world? Would you enjoy leading a team that defines and delivers software solutions at a scale few organizations ever encounter? AWS Identity provides the foundational authentication and authorization layer for all of AWS. As an SDM on the AuthRuntimeClient (ARC) team, you'll lead engineers who build and operate the systems that authenticates and authorizes every single request across all AWS services, sustaining over two billion transactions per second.

We are building the most secure, reliable, scalable, and performant authentication and authorization platform on the planet. As a Software Development Manager, you'll lead a team of engineers tackling challenging technical problems, innovating for services across all of AWS, and raising our high bar on security for all of our customers. You'll grow talent, drive technical strategy, and deliver results in a domain where correctness and availability are non-negotiable.

If you're passionate about having massive impact in cloud computing, leading a high-performing engineering team, and solving challenging problems at unparalleled scale, we want to talk to you.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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 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

Responsibilities

• People leadership. Hire, develop, and grow a team of software engineers. Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and grow engineers into their next roles.
• Technical strategy. Partner with principal engineers and senior leadership to define the team's technical direction. Make sound architectural decisions for distributed systems operating at AWS scale.
• Delivery and execution. Own the team's roadmap. Balance feature development, operational improvements, and tech debt reduction. Deliver consistently through ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Operational excellence. Maintain and improve the operational posture of Tier-1 services. Drive mechanisms for on-call health, incident response, COEs, and continuous improvement.
• Cross-team collaboration. Work across AWS Identity teams and partner organizations to align on shared goals, resolve dependencies, and influence broader technical direction.
• Security and customer trust. Champion security best practices in a domain where every decision impacts millions of customers. Ensure your team's services meet the highest bar for data protection and access control.

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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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