Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Job summary
Identity Services owns the systems that enable authenticating and identifying every Amazon customer in the world. Every aspect of the Amazon global business depends on our systems to know who the customer is, and if our systems are not up and running, the company stops. We balance keeping our systems fast, scalable and performant (no exceptions!) with rapidly delivering great features for Amazon customers and our developer partners. In short, we get to own and innovate on a critical customer experience while also supporting nearly every other business at the company; the best of both worlds
As a manager of the Identity team, you will take the Authentication charter to next level. You will be responsible for large, multi-year initiatives, while finding the right balance between building for immediate needs and building sustainable architectures. You will lead a software development team to meet challenging authentication and security related goals, and help us stay ahead of future challenges. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define these features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.
You are expected to be a hands-on technical manager who understands and sets a high bar for all parts of the software development and deployment life-cycle including: design, development, documentation, testing and operations. You must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. We're looking for people who are smart and can get things done. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are innovative, and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems in Identity, then we want you as a Software Development Manager for Amazon's eCommerce Platform Identity Services group.

This is a remote role.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead engineering team in executing against project plans, and delivery commitments.
• Delivery of high-quality, scalable software on-time and on-budget.
• Define, implement, and maintain a coherent, progressive development strategy for our product line.
• Evolve the software engineering practice within the organization
• Drive the organization development by hiring, and developing talent within the group.
• Conduct performance reviews of team members.
• Translate business, functional, and technical requirements into detailed project plans.
• Define our technical culture, and help build a fast-growing team

About the team
Identity Services' mission is to deliver the world's most secure, convenient, and intuitive Identity experience. We own backend functionality for customer authentication, customer attributes, profiles for customers sharing a single account (PCA), and household relationships, across all web, mobile, and device apps worldwide.

This is a remote role.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 3+ years of people management experience, managing engineers
• Experience in partnering with product and program management teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience of managing a engineering team.
• Ability to comfortably work in a fast paced, often ambiguous environment
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects
• Excellent time management, resource management and planning skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units
• Experience with agile or other program management methodologies
• Ability to proactively identify upcoming risks, issues, and bottlenecks and resolve issues that sometimes cross departmental boundaries
• Prior experience as a software developer