About this role
Amazon's Access Management Services (AMS) organization builds and operates the authorization backbone for all of Amazon, and the authorizer is the service at its center. A builder deploys code, opens a repository or changes infrastructure, and somewhere a service asks the authorizer whether the request is allowed. The authorizer answers that question billions of times a day.
AMS is looking for a Software Development Manager to lead the Authorizer team, which builds, owns and operates Amazon's central authorization decision service. Your team evaluates group membership, ownership and attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy. The authorizer is a Tier-1, multi-tenant service. Agentic AI is changing what the authorizer has to decide, too. Your team will define how Amazon authorizes agents at scale, and you'll use generative AI to speed up how the team builds and runs the service. You'll lead a team of SDEs directly and hire and grow engineers. You'll own the authorizer roadmap together with principal engineers, peer managers and partner teams. The role needs real technical depth, because you'll be in design reviews on distributed storage, caching and rate limiting. It also needs the operational discipline to run a Tier-1 on-call.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead, hire and develop a team of SDEs, and structure the team so it delivers consistently without burning out its key engineers
- Own the authorizer's availability, latency and cost-to-serve, with metrics and audit mechanisms that explain performance and variance against goals
- Drive the authorizer architecture roadmap, including the NAWS migration, DAX caching, the global endpoint and ABAC by default, while keeping a Tier-1 service healthy through every change
- Design multi-tenant capacity controls so one customer's load can't throttle others, and decide which limit increases run automatically and which need human review
- Define how the authorizer decides access for AI agents, and apply generative AI to how the team writes code and runs operations
- Write the narratives, PR/FAQs and roadmaps that align partner teams and senior leaders, and influence the roadmaps of teams that depend on the authorizer
- Make high-judgment calls quickly on incomplete information, and know when to dive into the details yourself