{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"87d67bb3839cbfa1c0dfc7b3","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/87d67bb3839cbfa1c0dfc7b3","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/87d67bb3839cbfa1c0dfc7b3","title":"Senior Software Development Manager , Access Management Services","description":"DESCRIPTION\nAmazon's Access Management Services (AMS) organization builds and operates the authorization backbone for all of Amazon. Our services govern who and what can access resources across the company — from group membership and ownership to policy evaluation and contingent authorization, to access lifecycle management. We secure authorization decisions at Amazon scale. Security is our top priority, but we also obsess over availability, latency, and cost-to-serve for the teams that depend on us.\n\nAMS is looking for an experienced Senior Software Development Manager to lead the organization that builds, owns, and operates Amazon's attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy services. Your team defines how authorization policies are expressed, evaluated, and enforced across Amazon — making access decisions for every service and workflow that touches protected resources. You will own Tier-1 services foundational to Amazon's operations while driving a shift from manual, team-by-team policy configuration toward intelligent defaults and automated guardrails that reduce friction for builders without compromising the security bar. This is a hard problem — ABAC policy must be expressive enough to cover wildly diverse authorization use cases, reliable enough to bear deep operational dependencies, and performant enough to operate at a scale where even small design choices have outsized blast radius.\n\nThis team is in the middle of a fundamental acceleration. The rise of agentic AI across Amazon is reshaping how authorization works — and how we build it. We're applying generative AI to compress our own development cycles, transform how we operate Tier-1 services, and deliver new AI-native authorization capabilities that let Amazon's businesses safely adopt agentic workloads at speed. If you love transforming legacy processes, building high-performing teams, and operating at a pace that matches the moment, this role will fit. You'll have substantial visibility with senior executives and the mandate to move fast. You'll need strong instincts for security outcomes paired with a passion for customer experience — and the technical depth to guide and riase the bar on principal engineers, SDEs, and development managers on system design, incremental delivery, and operational excellence.\n\nThis role invents and delivers for internal customers and is inherently cross-functional and requires the ability to think big and collaborate with others as you work closely with teams across engineering, operations, finance, and security. We are looking for a critical thinker who thrives on solving challenges in partnership with teams across Amazon.\n\nKey job responsibilities\nYou make high-judgment decisions at speed — seeking the right inputs without waiting for perfect information\n\nYou dig into hard, ambiguous problems and don't flinch at complex distributed systems\n\nYou lead through your people, not over them — challenging teams to find the answer while knowing exactly when to step in with structure and urgency\n\nYou expect effort, reward results, and hold yourself to the same bar\n\nYou follow the data, think strategically about where the world is going, and still dive deep to stay close to tactical execution\n\nYou have a healthy intolerance for the status quo — you'd rather redesign a system than patch around its limitations\n\nYou juggle competing priorities without dropping quality in a fast-moving environment\n\nYou build trust quickly with senior stakeholders and partner teams who depend on your services\n\nAbout the team\n\nDiverse Experiences\nAmazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.\n\nWhy Amazon Security?\nAt 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. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.\n\nInclusive Team Culture\nIn 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.\n\nTraining & Career Growth\nWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.\n\nWork/Life Balance\nWe 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.\n\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\n10+ years of engineering experience\n5+ years of engineering team management experience\n10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience\nExperience partnering with product or program management teams\nExperience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nExperience partnering with product and program management teams\nExperience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications\n\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\n\nLos 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.\n\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.\n\nThe 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. 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You will own Tier-1 services foundational to Amazon's operations while driving a shift from manual, team-by-team policy configuration toward intelligent defaults and automated guardrails that reduce friction for builders without compromising the security bar. This is a hard problem — ABAC policy must be expressive enough to cover wildly diverse authorization use cases, reliable enough to bear deep operational dependencies, and performant enough to operate at a scale where even small design choices have outsized blast radius.\n\nThis team is in the middle of a fundamental acceleration. The rise of agentic AI across Amazon is reshaping how authorization works — and how we build it. We're applying generative AI to compress our own development cycles, transform how we operate Tier-1 services, and deliver new AI-native authorization capabilities that let Amazon's businesses safely adopt agentic workloads at speed. 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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.\n\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. 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