Software Development Manager, AWS catalog

Job summary

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.

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• 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.
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• 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.
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 10+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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
• Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job
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