AWS Security is looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the team that builds security tooling for a U.S. Government program in a classified environment. Your team will build and run the internal tools, automation, and services that help security engineers detect, assess, and respond to risk faster and at greater scale.
You will own the security tooling roadmap from requirements through production, and balance new capabilities with operational excellence. You'll work with security engineers, systems development engineers, program managers, and Government counterparts to decide which tools matter most and deliver them. You will hire and develop strong engineers and build a culture of ownership, high standards, and continuous improvement.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead, hire, and develop a team of software development engineers, and set clear goals and performance expectations.
- Own the security tooling roadmap, working with security engineering customers to prioritize the tools that most reduce risk and manual effort.
- Deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable tooling and automation from design through deployment and operations.
- Drive technical design reviews and architecture decisions for security tooling services.
- Set operational excellence standards, including CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and on-call health.
- Report progress, risks, and adoption metrics clearly to senior leadership.
A day in the life
You start with your team's stand-up, clear any blockers in tooling deployment pipelines, and review overnight operational metrics. Mid-morning, you lead a design review for a new automation service that will replace a manual security workflow, and push the team to simplify. You meet with security engineers to learn where their current tools slow them down, then turn what you hear into next quarter's roadmap. In the afternoon, you coach an engineer one-on-one, interview a candidate, and brief leadership on tooling adoption and risk. Your team's tools help the whole security organization move faster.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- 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
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience building security tooling, security automation, or internal developer platforms.
- Experience leading engineering teams in classified or regulated environments.
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, VA, Herndon - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
