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# Software Development Manager, Amazon Security

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $184,900.0 - $250,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Code Review, Software Design Patterns, Software Product Management, Software Engineering, Web Services, Information Technology, Build Process, Software Coding, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/28014669/Software-Development-Manager-Amazon-Security-California-San-Diego-7375

## About the Role

Our team is looking for an experienced Software Development Manager (SDM) to lead a software development team in Amazon Security who will raise the security bar by delivering industry-best security services. You should be somebody who enjoys inventing and simplifying around complex security challenges, obsesses over the customer experience, and feels strongly about delivering results. You should be passionate about solving security hurdles in innovative ways. We do not desire to simply produce good software here at Amazon Security... we want to produce disruptive, industry-leading innovations., 4+ years of engineering team management experience

 - 7+ years of engineering experience
 - 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
 - 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 designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
 - Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent



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