Lead an engineering team within Amazon Healthcare Security that builds and operates security tooling and platforms protecting sensitive healthcare data across Amazon Health Services (AHS). Drive delivery of strategic security initiatives spanning access control, compliance automation, data governance, and secure enablement of healthcare experiences for millions of customers, while contributing to HealthSec's broader shift toward AI-native security operations. Grow and develop engineers on the team, providing hands-on mentorship and technical guidance to help them become effective builders at Amazon.
Your team will build critical security infrastructure that enables AHS to scale rapidly while maintaining the highest bar for patient data protection. You'll define the technical strategy for evolving these systems, managing execution across multiple concurrent workstreams with cross-organizational dependencies spanning security, healthcare application, and retail teams.
This is a high-impact role at the intersection of security engineering and healthcare compliance. You will partner closely with AHS teams, security leadership, and cross-org stakeholders to deliver systems that scale security protection across healthcare verticals while ensuring zero disruption to patient care.
The ideal candidate combines strong engineering leadership with experience managing complex cross-team dependencies in a compliance-sensitive domain. Someone who can drive operational excellence for production security systems while simultaneously executing on ambitious strategic goals that protect healthcare data at scale. Experience developing engineers into productive, independent contributors is essential.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 5+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
- 4+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- 5+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects, or experience working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
- Experience in security engineering, cloud security, or compliance-sensitive domains (healthcare, finance)
- Familiarity with access control systems (ABAC/RBAC), authentication frameworks, or identity management
- Experience with HIPAA compliance requirements or healthcare data handling
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, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
