Manager, Software Development, Helianthus

Do you want to build the future of software security at AWS scale? AWS Security's Helianthus platform transforms how AWS Security builds and delivers to its customers. For AWS builders, Helianthus delivers intelligent security guidance directly into their daily workflows. Rather than waiting days for security review tickets, builders receive instant guidance as they write code, actionable CRs or prompts to fix issues, and automated responses to security findings—all while security teams gain continuous visibility into security posture without manual oversight.

For Security Engineers evaluating service teams' architecture, code, and configuration, it provides contextualized evaluation and fixes that meet AWS' security bar.

As a Manager of Software Development for Helianthus, you'll lead the teams that build platform primitives under a single technical vision, transforming a set of working prototypes into production-grade services that operate at AWS scale. You'll drive the architecture that enables these primitives to compose seamlessly:
Discovery finds vulnerabilities, Arbiter makes intelligent security evaluation, and Actions delivers fixes. This role blends deep experience in building high-scale distributed systems with security domain expertise and emerging AI capabilities, creating a unique opportunity to shape how AWS secures and protects is customers.

• Establish and drive a unified multi-year technical roadmap across the Helianthus primitives, ensuring architectural decisions enable clean composition and seamless integration across the end-to-end software lifecycle.
• Lead the transition from prototyping to production by establishing engineering excellence standards, operational readiness practices, and reliability mechanisms required for production-grade services operating at AWS scale
• Develop and coach tmanagers, providing strategic project assignments and growth opportunities that increase their leadership impact and prepare them for broader organizational responsibilities.
• Own cross-organizational stakeholder engagement by representing Helianthus in leadership forums, driving adoption across AWS Security organizations, and managing technical dependencies with partner platform teams.
• Establish scalable mechanisms to audit customer experience, operational performance, and cross-team collaboration, ensuring the primitives operated as a cohesive system rather than siloed components

You'll balance hands-on technical judgment with strategic planning, ensuring your organization delivers both immediate customer value and long-term platform sustainability. Throughout the day, you'll unblock technical dependencies across teams, facilitate roadmap alignment sessions with partner organizations, and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across AWS Security. You'll coach your managers through complex people situations and strategic decisions, review operational metrics to ensure predictable delivery, and identify systemic risks that could impact your teams over the next 1-3 years.

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