Amazon

Software Development Manager, Amazon Security Data Engineering

$185K–$250K

Herndon, VA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026

Experience: 3+ years of engineering team management; 7+ years of engineering; 8+ years leading multi tier web services; 3+ years in a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related role; 1+ years of technical leadership and project management across the software development lifecycle; 1+ years developing large-scale distributed systems using the specified technologies and approaches.
Education: Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

About the job

Leads a software development team building and operating the cataloging and optimization platform for Amazon’s petabyte-scale Security Data Lake.

Lead, mentor, hire, and develop software engineers; manage team capacity, delivery, and on-call readiness.
Set technical vision and oversee distributed systems for data cataloging, compaction, re-organization, and indexing.
Partner with security and data engineering teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities and improve query and threat-investigation performance.

3+ years of engineering team management experience and 7+ years of engineering experience.
8+ years leading the definition and development of multi tier web services.
Experience developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed systems using Java, C#, or C++, service-oriented architecture, and distributed programming.
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; knowledge of the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle; experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and senior leadership about requirements, features, designs, and strategy.
Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and managing software engineering teams.

184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually (base salary)

Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, Parquet, Java, C#, C++

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