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Description

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our mission is to prevent denied entities from transacting with Amazon businesses. We build automatic mechanisms to detect and prevent prohibited transactions with denied entities using a diverse set of algorithms and machine learning techniques. We screen over a billion events every day and deal with unique scaling and TPS challenges. We are still Day 1 and have an exciting road map to build Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (LLM) powered detection and resolution systems to help scale Amazon for years to come.

We are looking for an outstanding Senior Manager, Software development, who has the passion for working on challenging problems from the very early stages. Together with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, ML scientists, and subject domain experts, you will help define our customer experience and protect Amazon brand. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are technical and innovative, and looking for an opportunity to build ML/AI systems and solutions, we want to talk to you.

Ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and solid people management skills to build, manage and develop a highly-talented and experienced engineering team. Strong judgment and communication skills, long term technical vision, and continuous focus on engineering and operational excellence are essential for the success in this role.

Key job responsibilities

• Define the vision for your teams and lead them with passion and empathy towards executing that vision

• Shape the team’s structure and technical strategy to address business needs

• Lead several teams in designing, developing, documenting, and rolling out large-scale services

• Grow leaders who will disambiguate a complex business area and translate it into tech systems

• Evaluate and make decisions around the use of existing software products and tools and building new ones

• Ensure operational readiness and excellence in maintaining systems in production

• Collaborate with multiple business stakeholder, engineering and design teams to coordinate, prioritize and deliver products/solutions

A day in the life

You are the owner of your team and product, diving into any problem with your engineers and stakeholders to invent scalable solutions and remove roadblocks to protect Amazon from the bad actors.

You are also the mentor and champion of your team members, helping them grow in their career aspirations and technical growth.

About the team

About Amazon Security:

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience

• 5+ years of engineering team management experience

• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience

• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience partnering with product and program management teams

• Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications