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Software Development Manager, Amazon Security Data Engineering

Herndon, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time💰 $184,900–$250,200🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead a team of software developers building the optimization layer for Amazon's petabyte-scale Security Data Lake, enabling faster incident response and threat hunting.

Role type

Senior IC manager (software development)

Builds

Distributed systems for data compaction, re-organization, and indexing supporting Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, and Parquet

Domain

Cloud security, big data infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

engineering team management, distributed systems architecture, technical vision, stakeholder partnership, operational excellence, performance reviews, hiring, sprint execution

Preferred skills

recruiting and mentoring software engineers, communicating technical designs and product strategy to senior leadership

Technologies

Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, Parquet, Java, C#, C++, service-oriented architecture

Responsibilities

Drive technical roadmap for petabyte-scale data catalogs, oversee design of distributed optimization systems, partner with cross-functional teams on security requirements, establish engineering best practices, manage team capacity and delivery commitments, conduct performance reviews and hiring, manage on-call rotation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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