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Director of Software Development - Security
Amazon
Herndon, VA, United States
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DESCRIPTION
Each day, our customers make billions of transactions worldwide on our cloud. They harness the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. The AWS Security team owns security for all of these services offered by AWS, including EC2, S3, and many others.
Our team works with the many AWS teams to solve security challenges at massive scale. We build customer trust by designing, engineering, and operating services that meet the security goals of our customers, be it a start-up working out of a garage that needs simple, easy to use and understand security services for the non-expert, to fortune 500 companies with dedicated security staff and rigid compliance obligations.
You don’t need to have a security background to be successful on the AWS Security team. What you need is a desire to work on the bleeding edge, a desire to work on complex computer science problems, and the ability to simplify that complexity for our customers. Most importantly, you must have a strong backbone, be willing to fight for the privacy and protection of our customers, and be able to earn and maintain the trust of your coworkers.
The role
As Director, Software Development you will build and manage a team of software development managers, software development engineers, technical program managers, UI design engineers, and others to create a new security related service that makes it easier for customers to understand the security posture of their AWS assets, and to automate the workflow to take protective action if necessary. You will design and build a system that is able to correlate data from many sources, and present the data in the manner appropriate for the role of the customer (CISO, Security Engineer, systems engineer, etc.). The system you will build will be modular, allowing additional data feeds and views to be added easily over time, and potentially allow customers and partners to access intelligence via APIs to expand the system to suite their specific needs. As the team expands and the service grows, you will continually evaluate the performance of your organization using a metrics driven approach, and will lead and mentor your management team through the changes necessary to provide a high quality service that your customers can rely on.
As a Director, you will part of the larger technical and product leadership community at Amazon. This community forms the backbone of the company, plays a critical role in the broad business planning, working closely with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements, influences our long-term technical and business strategy, plays a significant role in hiring great engineers, principal engineers, product managers, and engineering managers, and ultimately enables us to deliver innovative new solutions rapidly.
This position on the AWS Security team represents a rare opportunity to get in on day one of building a new service, and help shape the technology, product and the business. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, strong business acumen and judgment, ability to define visionary, ground breaking products, ability to hire and lead a team, desire to have an industry wide impact and ability to work within a fast moving environment in a large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad business impact.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Basic Qualifications
• BS or MS degree in a technical discipline
• 10+ years’ of progressive responsibilities in managing one or more of the following areas: software/web development, application delivery, design or architecture for web or service oriented environments
• 6+ years’ experience using agile development methodologies
• Experience starting a product / program from scratch and bringing it to market
• Forming and delivering on long-term technical strategy and goals
• An eye for clean, testable, maintainable, and performant code
• Passion for creating efficient, scalable and highly intuitive user interfaces
• Familiarity with modern web development technologies such as React / Flux, AnuglarJS 2.0,
• Familiarity with modern web development techniques such as reactive systems, responsive design, and client- vs. server-side rendering
• Proven ability to juggle multiple, competing priorities simultaneously and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Experienced in building, retaining, and leading teams of highly competent software development engineers, UI engineers, ranging from new graduates to seasoned managers and architects
• Exceptional influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts as well as senior management and executives
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Preferred qualifications
• Experience using AWS
• Experience using version control systems such as SVN or Git
• Experience with bug tracking software such as Jira or ClearQuest
• Experience with serverless architectures
• Mastery in recruiting and maintain top tier talent
• Experience managing a team practicing devops
This job is located in Herndon, VA.
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