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This role requires strong people leadership, technical judgment, and the ability to turn broad customer needs into clear plans.\nKey job responsibilities\nLead, hire, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.\nOwn the team's technical direction, roadmap, execution, and operational performance.\nGuide the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and reliable software systems.\nWork with engineering, product, and program partners to define priorities and manage dependencies.\nEstablish mechanisms for software quality, security, testing, availability, and operational readiness.\nCommunicate technical decisions, progress, risks, and tradeoffs to partner teams and senior leaders.\nA day in the life\nYou 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.\nPeople 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.\nAbout the team\nAuth 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.\nBasic qualifications\n- 3+ years of engineering team management experience\n- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience\n- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience\n- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience\n- 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\n- Experience partnering with product or program management teams\nPreferred qualifications\n- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy\n- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.\nThe 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. 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