Amazon Security Data Engineering seeks a Software Development Manager to lead our Data Cataloging and Optimization team. You'll manage a team of software developers building the critical optimization layer of Amazon's Security Data Lake—a petabyte-scale platform supporting Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, and Parquet formats. Your team develops distributed systems for data compaction, re-organization, and indexing that enable data engineers across AWS, Amazon Stores, Digital, and other business units to reduce Incident Response and Threat Hunting times from months to minutes. This role requires deep technical expertise in building large-scale distributed systems and proven people leadership skills. You'll drive technical vision, establish engineering best practices, and grow high-performing teams while balancing multiple latency requirements from real-time batch detections to historical threat hunting across months of data.


Key job responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software developers building the Security Data Lake's cataloging and optimization platform
• Drive technical vision and roadmap for systems that manage petabyte-scale data catalogs supporting Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, Parquet, and other formats
• Oversee the design and implementation of distributed systems for data optimization including compaction, re-organization, and indexing at scale
• Partner with data engineers and security teams across AWS, Amazon Stores, Digital, and other business units to understand their requirements and deliver platform capabilities
• Guide architectural decisions for systems that balance multiple latency scenarios—from minute-level batch detections to month-spanning threat hunting queries
• Establish software engineering best practices, code quality standards, and operational excellence for platform development
• Build systems that enable data engineers to optimize performance and reduce Incident Response and Threat Hunting times, directly impacting security outcomes
• Manage team capacity planning, sprint execution, and delivery commitments for critical security infrastructure
• Conduct performance reviews, career development conversations, and hiring activities
• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and customer obsession focused on building scalable platforms
• Collaborate with peer teams across Amazon Security and data platform teams to drive cross-functional initiatives
• Manage on-call and operational readiness

About the team
The Data Cataloging and Optimization team builds the platform layer that makes Amazon's Security Data Lake fast and efficient at petabyte scale. We're software developers passionate about distributed systems, working with Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, and Parquet to build optimization systems for data compaction, re-organization, and indexing. Our platform enables data engineers and security analysts across AWS, Amazon Stores, and Digital to investigate incidents and hunt threats—reducing query times from months to minutes. We emphasize ownership, technical excellence, and customer obsession while collaborating across Amazon Security to solve hard problems that directly impact Amazon's security posture.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 3+ years of Software Engineer, Software Developer, or related occupational experience
- 1+ years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java, C#, or C++ experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
- 1+ years of developing large-scale, multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming 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 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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, CA, San Diego - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Herndon - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually