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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Development Manager, AWS catalog - **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc. - **Location:** East Palo Alto, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $212,700.0 - $287,700.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Amazon Web Services, Software Quality, Code Review, Data Security, Software Design Patterns, Software Product Management, Software Engineering, Core Data, Information Technology, AWS Data Analytics, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control - **Published:** July 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10487772/software-development-manager-aws-catalog ## About the Role 3+ years of engineering team management experience - 10+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field - 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 - Experience partnering with product or program management teams Preferred Qualifications - Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy - Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers - Experience delivering products against plan in a fast-paced, multi-disciplined, distributed-responsibility and often ambiguous environment - Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field ## Description Lead and grow a two-pizza team of engineers, owning their hiring, development, and performance. - Own the Lake Formation service - ensure continued reliability, operational health, and feature evolution for one of AWS's core data governance services. - Drive the Glue Grant surface - lead a major greenfield initiative to simplify how access control is expressed and enforced in Glue Data Catalog, from design through GA. - Define and execute technical strategy for data access control and permissions in Glue Data Catalog, working closely with senior leadership and principal engineers. - Partner cross-functionally with product, security, and adjacent service teams to deliver cohesive, scalable customer experiences. - Drive delivery of multi-quarter programs with well-defined milestones, managing dependencies, risks, and trade-offs in a fast-paced environment. - Raise the technical bar - set standards for design, operational excellence, and code quality; actively participate in design reviews and architectural decisions. - Manage operational health of production services including on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous improvement of reliability and performance. - Champion customers - translate ambiguous customer problems into crisp engineering requirements and deliver solutions wit About the team - Greenfield build: The Glue Grant surface is a new effort to fundamentally simplify access control in Glue - you'll have the opportunity to shape the design from the ground up. - Own a flagship service: Lake Formation is a core AWS data governance service used by hundreds of thousands of customers; you'll own its continued evolution. - Broad impact: Your work directly influences how customers protect their data across every major AWS region. - Strong leadership support: You will work closely with senior leadership who are deeply invested in this space, with clear organizational backing and executive visibility. - Growth opportunity: This role sits at the center of a fast-growing intersection of data, security, and governance - areas that are top priorities for AWS. ## Related Videos - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Are Code Reviews Worth It? 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