Software Engineering Manager, Devices and Services Security

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This Software Engineering Manager leads a team of Software Development Engineers who automate security processes, build security guardrails for AI assisted development, and deliver security solutions across Amazon's Devices & Services organization. The portfolio includes Alexa, Fire TV, smart home ecosystems, e-readers, mesh WiFi networking systems, cloud connected cameras, home security platforms, autonomous vehicle systems, and enterprise networking and IoT solutions.

The scope is broad by design. This team secures products that millions of customers and businesses use daily across a portfolio that spans consumer electronics, enterprise infrastructure, and autonomous systems. The manager who succeeds here moves fast across domains, makes decisions with incomplete information, and builds systems that scale across product lines rather than solving one problem at a time.

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

• Define the team's charter and technical vision with stakeholders, then own the roadmap that delivers on that vision.
• Make explicit tradeoffs between short term delivery and long term architecture, and communicate those tradeoffs clearly to engineering leadership.
• Lead architectural decisions across the full stack.
• Define and track metrics that measure development velocity, customer experience, and operational health, and hold the team accountable to SLA commitments.
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies and guide the team toward adopting agentic development practices that enable continuous, automated development workflows.
• Mentor and grow engineers who build in an AI native development environment.

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