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Description

Are you passionate about leading teams that build technology to protect customer privacy at global scale? Join Amazon's Devices & Services Privacy Engineering organization as a Software Development Manager. In this role, you'll lead a team of engineers dedicated to safeguarding data for hundreds of millions of customers who use Amazon's devices and services, including Alexa, Ring, Fire TV, and other innovative Amazon products.

Our organization is at the forefront of privacy innovation, developing solutions that ensure customer trust across Amazon's entire device ecosystem. As a Software Development Manager, you'll guide your team in processing billions of daily customer interactions, implementing AI/ML-driven privacy controls, and building privacy-enhancing technologies that operate at massive scale. You'll collaborate with privacy experts, product teams, and senior technical leaders to drive complex engineering initiatives that directly impact how customers interact with their Amazon devices while maintaining strict privacy standards.

If you're interested in leading at the intersection of privacy, consumer devices, and innovative technology, this role offers the opportunity to shape how millions of customers experience privacy features while developing your leadership skills in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Key job responsibilities

* Lead and develop a team of software engineers focused on privacy engineering solutions

* Drive technical strategy and roadmap planning for privacy initiatives that span multiple Amazon device products

* Set the technical direction for privacy architecture in large-scale systems

* Partner with product, legal, and compliance teams to translate privacy requirements into actionable engineering solutions

* Mentor and grow engineering talent, while building a strong team culture focused on privacy innovation

* Manage the full development lifecycle of privacy features from conception to delivery

* Represent the privacy engineering organization in cross-functional leadership forums

* Drive hiring and team expansion to support growing privacy engineering needs

* Establish metrics and operational excellence practices for measuring privacy outcomes

A day in the life

As a SDM, you'll drive privacy innovation with bias for action:

* Making real-time decisions to protect hundreds of millions of customer interactions

* Leading engineers to deliver privacy-preserving features that meet the highest standards

* Rapidly prototyping solutions that turn emerging regulations into competitive advantages

* Insisting on rigorous privacy architecture while shipping customer-obsessed features

* Moving with urgency to harden privacy controls across Alexa, Ring, and Fire TV ecosystems

You'll transform complex privacy challenges into customer trust, balancing swift execution with the highest standards in an environment where your decisions impact every Amazon device globally.

About the team

\## About the Team

The Devices & Services Privacy Engineering team makes privacy a competitive advantage across Amazon's device ecosystem. We pioneer solutions for voice technology, smart home systems, and entertainment devices that protect data for hundreds of millions of customers globally. Our culture combines customer obsession with technical innovation—we take ownership of complex privacy challenges and act decisively to implement solutions at scale. Join us to redefine privacy standards for the next generation of ambient intelligence while directly impacting households worldwide.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience

- 7+ years of engineering experience

- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience

- 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

- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our 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.