AmazonSoftware Development Manager, US ADC Security
Amazon is hiring a Software Development Manager, US ADC Security. It pays $185k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this role: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions CI/CD, AWS and software development among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a lead role.
- Amazon has 21,000+ other open roles on Level.
- Posted within the past week.
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Lead a software development team building internal security tooling and automation for classified government programs.
You will own the security tooling roadmap from requirements through production, and balance new capabilities with operational excellence. You'll work with security engineers, systems development engineers, program managers, and Government counterparts to decide which tools matter most and deliver them. You will hire and develop strong engineers and build a culture of ownership, high standards, and continuous improvement.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead, hire, and develop a team of software development engineers, and set clear goals and performance expectations.
- Own the security tooling roadmap, working with security engineering customers to prioritize the tools that most reduce risk and manual effort.
- Deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable tooling and automation from design through deployment and operations.
- Drive technical design reviews and architecture decisions for security tooling services.
- Set operational excellence standards, including CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and on-call health.
- Report progress, risks, and adoption metrics clearly to senior leadership.
A day in the life
You start with your team's stand-up, clear any blockers in tooling deployment pipelines, and review overnight operational metrics. Mid-morning, you lead a design review for a new automation service that will replace a manual security workflow, and push the team to simplify. You meet with security engineers to learn where their current tools slow them down, then turn what you hear into next quarter's roadmap. In the afternoon, you coach an engineer one-on-one, interview a candidate, and brief leadership on tooling adoption and risk. Your team's tools help the whole security organization move faster.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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.
Why 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. 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.
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.
Training & Career Growth
We’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.
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.
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Bachelor's degree, or CSSLP (Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional)
- 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
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI.
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
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience building security tooling, security automation, or internal developer platforms.
- Experience leading engineering teams in classified or regulated environments.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our 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.
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, VA, Herndon - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
How we rate this
Software Development Manager, US ADC Security at Amazon rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where software development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where team management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where security tooling was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used CI/CD in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Software Development, Team Management, Security Tooling, Automation, and CI/CD. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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