Amazon Security Data Engineering seeks a Software Development Manager to lead our Data Cataloging and Optimization team. You'll manage a team of software developers building the critical optimization layer of Amazon's Security Data Lake—a petabyte-scale platform supporting Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, and Parquet formats. Your team develops distributed systems for data compaction, re-organization, and indexing that enable data engineers across AWS, Amazon Stores, Digital, and other business units to reduce Incident Response and Threat Hunting times from months to minutes. This role requires deep technical expertise in building large-scale distributed systems and proven people leadership skills. You'll drive technical vision, establish engineering best practices, and grow high-performing teams while balancing multiple latency requirements from real-time batch detections to historical threat hunting across months of data.


Key job responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software developers building the Security Data Lake's cataloging and optimization platform
• Drive technical vision and roadmap for systems that manage petabyte-scale data catalogs supporting Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, Parquet, and other formats
• Oversee the design and implementation of distributed systems for data optimization including compaction, re-organization, and indexing at scale
• Partner with data engineers and security teams across AWS, Amazon Stores, Digital, and other business units to understand their requirements and deliver platform capabilities
• Guide architectural decisions for systems that balance multiple latency scenarios—from minute-level batch detections to month-spanning threat hunting queries
• Establish software engineering best practices, code quality standards, and operational excellence for platform development
• Build systems that enable data engineers to optimize performance and reduce Incident Response and Threat Hunting times, directly impacting security outcomes
• Manage team capacity planning, sprint execution, and delivery commitments for critical security infrastructure
• Conduct performance reviews, career development conversations, and hiring activities
• Foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and customer obsession focused on building scalable platforms
• Collaborate with peer teams across Amazon Security and data platform teams to drive cross-functional initiatives
• Manage on-call and operational readiness

About the team
The Data Cataloging and Optimization team builds the platform layer that makes Amazon's Security Data Lake fast and efficient at petabyte scale. We're software developers passionate about distributed systems, working with Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, and Parquet to build optimization systems for data compaction, re-organization, and indexing. Our platform enables data engineers and security analysts across AWS, Amazon Stores, and Digital to investigate incidents and hunt threats—reducing query times from months to minutes. We emphasize ownership, technical excellence, and customer obsession while collaborating across Amazon Security to solve hard problems that directly impact Amazon's security posture.