In this role, you will serve as a senior technical product leader embedded across the full breadth of our portfolio, driving technical deep dives into architecture, roadmap, and customer problems across Search, Security, and Observability. You will partner closely with Engineering and Product leaders across all our charters, helping the teams move faster, innovate bigger, and drive greater impact for our customers.
You will own technical discovery and problem decomposition, going deep on the hardest customer and product challenges, synthesizing insights, and translating them into actionable strategies. You will drive success through feature definition, roadmap prioritization, positioning, naming, GTM, usage growth, and financial metrics. Operationally, you will solve customer problems, improve delivery speed, and drive usage by working backwards from ambiguous customer needs, translating them into disruptive, successful products that delight customers.
This role carries broad exposure and increasing responsibility over time. You will interact with customers (including senior executives) on a daily basis, coordinate across many internal and external teams, and be visible at the highest levels of the company. You'll work with our customers, partners, software vendors, and operational stakeholders to prioritize roadmap features and spearhead the definition of new capabilities through expertly crafted business requirements documents.
The successful candidate must have exceptional problem-solving skills, strong business judgment, and demonstrated experience influencing both internally and externally across technical and non-technical stakeholders. We are looking for a proven ability to execute both strategically and tactically, and someone who is excited to take on new, ambiguous projects that will be industry defining. This position requires a strong technical background. The candidate should be comfortable going deep on distributed systems, security architectures, and cloud-scale operations, and be customer-focused with a passion for security and cloud technology.
Key job responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Strategy
- Shape 3-5 year strategic vision and technical roadmaps for OpenSearch, CloudWatch, and Security Services
- Review complex service design decisions across distributed systems and security architectures
- Drive technical innovation in search technologies, observability platforms, and security services
- Identify service dependencies and efficiency improvements across the AWS ecosystem
- Own business and product definition for major AWS service products
- Customer & Market Focus
- Lead technical discussions with enterprise customers and participate in customer advisory boards
- Analyze competitive landscape and identify market opportunities in search, observability, and security
- Translate customer pain points into technical product requirements and solutions
- Represent AWS at industry conferences and technical events
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Drive team execution of strategic initiatives across multiple engineering organizations
- Collaborate with engineering, sales, marketing, and business development teams
- Mentor and develop product management skills in team members
- Take ownership of product reliability issues and drive resolution
- Influence pricing and packaging decisions for external services
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of product management, engineering, or technical leadership experience
- 5+ years in cloud services, distributed systems, or enterprise software
- Deep knowledge of core systems in search, observability, or security technology domains
- Proven experience in enterprise-level technology solution delivery
- Strong technical analysis expertise across multiple techniques and methodologies
- Ability to represent and defend architectural decision rationales
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or PhD
- 3+ years of experience with search technologies (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch), observability platforms (monitoring, logging, tracing), or security services
- Experience with AWS services and cloud-native architecture
- Background in open-source communities and ecosystem management
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC, FedRAMP, HIPAA, GDPR)
- Experience with machine learning and AI integration in enterprise services
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 208,300.00 - 281,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 181,100.00 - 245,000.00 USD annually
