Software Development Manager, IAM, Auth Platform
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Job overview
The Software Development Manager will lead the Auth Platform engineering team, setting technical direction and overseeing delivery, operations, and talent development. The role partners across AWS to build secure, reliable software at scale, translating customer needs into plans and priorities. It combines people leadership with technical judgment, system design, operational performance, and coordination with engineering, product, and program partners.
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Description
As a Software Development Manager on the Auth Platform team, you will lead a team of engineers solving complex technical problems that affect services and customers across AWS. You will own the team's technical direction, delivery, operations, and talent development. You will work with engineers and partner teams to build secure, reliable software at scale while maintaining a high bar for engineering quality. This role requires strong people leadership, technical judgment, and the ability to turn broad customer needs into clear plans.
Key job responsibilities
Lead, hire, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.
Own the team's technical direction, roadmap, execution, and operational performance.
Guide the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and reliable software systems.
Work with engineering, product, and program partners to define priorities and manage dependencies.
Establish mechanisms for software quality, security, testing, availability, and operational readiness.
Communicate technical decisions, progress, risks, and tradeoffs to partner teams and senior leaders.
A day in the life
You will work with engineers to review designs, make technical tradeoffs, and remove delivery blockers. You will meet with partner teams to clarify requirements, set priorities, and coordinate work that crosses organizational boundaries. You will also review operational performance, customer feedback, and delivery progress.
People development is a regular part of the role. You will coach engineers, hold one-on-one meetings, support career growth, and participate in hiring. You will move between long-term planning and immediate engineering decisions while giving team members clear ownership of their work.
About the team
Auth Platform builds and operates foundational software that helps services authenticate requests securely and reliably. The team works with engineering groups across AWS and owns systems where security, availability, and operational discipline matter. Team members solve complex distributed systems problems, improve existing services, and develop new capabilities for customers and partner teams.
Basic Qualifications
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3+ years of engineering team management experience
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7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
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3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
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8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
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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
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Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
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Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
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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, WA, Seattle - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 5,673 open Engineering Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$185–250K/yr
- Washington median$185–250K/yr241 salary ranges
- US median$144–261K/yr4,665 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $218K, is close to the Washington median midpoint ($218K) — in the middle half of Engineering Manager salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 267 open Engineering Manager jobs in Washington and 5,673 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Engineering Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (4,912 postings).
- Education
- 2,370 of the 5,673 open Engineering Manager jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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