Job Description
Amazon Web Services is looking for an experienced Software Development Manager to lead a two-pizza team building the next generation of access control for AWS Glue Data Catalog. This is a high-impact, technically complex role at the intersection of data governance, security, and large-scale distributed systems - sitting within the AWS Catalog organization in Palo Alto, CA.
You will own a team responsible for AWS Lake Formation and a greenfield initiative to build a new access control layer that fundamentally simplifies how access control works in Glue Data Catalog. Your work directly enables customers - from Fortune 500 enterprises to government agencies - to securely share and manage data at scale.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead and grow a two-pizza team of engineers, owning their hiring, development, and performance.
- Own the Lake Formation service - ensure continued reliability, operational health, and feature evolution for one of AWS"s core data governance services.
- Drive the Glue Grant surface - lead a major greenfield initiative to simplify how access control is expressed and enforced in Glue Data Catalog, from design through GA.
- Define and execute technical strategy for data access control and permissions in Glue Data Catalog, working closely with senior leadership and principal engineers.
- Partner cross-functionally with product, security, and adjacent service teams to deliver cohesive, scalable customer experiences.
- Drive delivery of multi-quarter programs with well-defined milestones, managing dependencies, risks, and trade-offs in a fast-paced environment.
- Raise the technical bar - set standards for design, operational excellence, and code quality; actively participate in design reviews and architectural decisions.
- Manage operational health of production services including on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous improvement of reliability and performance.
- Champion customers - translate ambiguous customer problems into crisp engineering requirements and deliver solutions wit
About the team
- Greenfield build: The Glue Grant surface is a new effort to fundamentally simplify access control in Glue - you"ll have the opportunity to shape the design from the ground up.
- Own a flagship service: Lake Formation is a core AWS data governance service used by hundreds of thousands of customers; you"ll own its continued evolution.
- Broad impact: Your work directly influences how customers protect their data across every major AWS region.
- Strong leadership support: You will work closely with senior leadership who are deeply invested in this space, with clear organizational backing and executive visibility.
- Growth opportunity: This role sits at the center of a fast-growing intersection of data, security, and governance - areas that are top priorities for AWS.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | East Palo Alto, CA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Skills
- Access Controlunmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Architectural Servicesunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Customer Experienceunmatched
- Data Managementunmatched
- Design For Excellence (DFX)unmatched
- Distributed Computingunmatched
- Fortune 500 Customersunmatched
- Governmentunmatched
- Incident Responseunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- On Callunmatched
- Operations Managementunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Team Buildingunmatched
- Technical Strategyunmatched
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