Manager, Software Development, Leo Trust Services

Software Development Manager

Project Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. We are looking for an experienced software development manager to lead the team building our legal compliance and data governance platform. This system processes authorized legal demands across multiple countries while enforcing strict data minimization, jurisdictional boundaries, and customer privacy protections.

You will own a security critical product that balances strict response SLAs with rigorous access controls, tamper proof audit trails, and country specific data sovereignty requirements. This is a unique opportunity to build a platform from early stage through global scale, shaping how we protect customer trust while meeting legal obligations in every market we serve.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

• Own development of a multi-jurisdiction platform that processes authorized legal demands while protecting customer privacy through layered authorization, field level access control, and instance isolation per country.
• Manage day to day team execution, grow engineers' skills, define goals and success metrics, and drive architecture decisions across platform components including identity management, rules engines, case management, and secure data delivery.
• Partner with legal, compliance, and policy stakeholders across jurisdictions to translate regulatory requirements into working software, and identify opportunities for automation to reduce manual processing while maintaining security controls.

You will review security designs against established rubrics, ensuring new features enforce verified identity, mandate scoped disclosure, and jurisdictional containment before any data is accessed. You will coordinate with legal teams on country specific requirements, drive your engineers through sprint execution, and make tradeoff decisions between delivery velocity and security rigor. You will work closely with principal engineers and partner teams on integration points including customer data stores, encrypted delivery mechanisms, and external compliance systems.

The Leo Trust Services team owns the security of customer data and legal compliance for Project Leo's satellite broadband service. We build the systems that allow Amazon to meet its legal obligations worldwide without compromising our commitment to customer privacy. Our work spans cryptography, identity management, distributed systems, and regulatory compliance across dozens of countries.

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