Senior Systems Development Manager, AWS Trust & Safety

Senior System Development Manager

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is built on the core principles of security, privacy, compliance, and transparency, which form the foundation of our trusted cloud infrastructure. We are seeking individuals who are dedicated to upholding these principles daily. As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations.

We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.

Are you interested in leading the development of systems that safeguard AWS customers and their data from evolving threats? The AWS Trust & Safety (T&S) team is seeking a Senior System Development Manager to lead a new engineering function and help shape the future of trust and safety at scale.

As the Sr. System Development Manager, you'll lead and grow an engineering function focused on building scalable systems that improve efficiency of response and protect AWS from known and emerging abuse threats. You'll be responsible for setting direction, hiring and developing top talent, and partnering across the company to deliver durable technical solutions in a fast-moving environment.

• Build and scale high-performing engineering teams focused on threat response, automation, and resilience
• Own technical strategy and execution across multiple work streams, delivering measurable outcomes against team goals
• Collaborate with stakeholders across T&S, Security, and Product to translate safety needs into sustainable technical solutions
• Accelerate the adoption of GenAI, machine learning, and automation to reduce manual toil and improve detection accuracy
• Take ownership of existing critical services and ensure their long-term reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
• Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, security, operations, and leadership stakeholders
• Establish engineering best practices, mechanisms for scale, and a culture of high ownership and technical excellence from the ground up
• Define and track key metrics to measure team impact, system health, and threat-response effectiveness

About the Team

AWS Trust & Safety is responsible for protecting AWS infrastructure and customers from abuse, fraud, and illegal content. We operate at massive scale — responding to threats across the full breadth of AWS services — and are investing in next-generation engineering capabilities to stay ahead of evolving risks. This role sits at the center of that investment: building the engineering function that will define how T&S detects, responds to, and prevents abuse for years to come.

We value builders who thrive in ambiguity, default to action, and are energized by the opportunity to create something new with real-world impact.