Senior Software Development Manager , Access Management Services

Description

Amazon'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.

AMS 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.

This 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  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.

This 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.

• You make high-judgment decisions at speed — seeking the right inputs without waiting for perfect information
• You dig into hard, ambiguous problems and don't flinch at complex distributed systems
• You lead through your people, not over them — challenging teams to find the answer while knowing exactly when to step in with structure and urgency
• You expect effort, reward results, and hold yourself to the same bar
• You follow the data, think strategically about where the world is going, and still dive deep to stay close to tactical execution
• You have a healthy intolerance for the status quo — you'd rather redesign a system than patch around its limitations
• You juggle competing priorities without dropping quality in a fast-moving environment
• You build trust quickly with senior stakeholders and partner teams who depend on your services

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.

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…