Software Development Manager III, Healthcare Security

Lead an engineering team within Amazon Healthcare Security that builds and operates security tooling and platforms protecting sensitive healthcare data across Amazon Health Services (AHS). Drive delivery of strategic security initiatives spanning access control, compliance automation, data governance, and secure enablement of healthcare experiences for millions of customers, while contributing to HealthSec’s broader shift toward AI-native security operations. Grow and develop engineers on the team, providing hands-on mentorship and technical guidance to help them become effective builders at Amazon. Your team will build critical security infrastructure that enables AHS to scale rapidly while maintaining the highest bar for patient data protection. You’ll define the technical strategy for evolving these systems, managing execution across multiple concurrent workstreams with cross-organizational dependencies spanning security, healthcare application, and retail teams. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of security engineering and healthcare compliance. You will partner closely with AHS teams, security leadership, and cross-org stakeholders to deliver systems that scale security protection across healthcare verticals while ensuring zero disruption to patient care. The ideal candidate combines strong engineering leadership with experience managing complex cross-team dependencies in a compliance-sensitive domain. Someone who can drive operational excellence for production security systems while simultaneously executing on ambitious strategic goals that protect healthcare data at scale. Experience developing engineers into productive, independent contributors is essential.

At Amazon, we're on an ambitious journey to transform healthcare: making it radically simpler, more accessible, and truly focused on customers. Every day, our teams push boundaries to create seamless ways for customers to discover, access, and engage with the healthcare services they need. We combine Amazon's culture of innovation with technology to break down traditional barriers, and while we move fast to revolutionize the industry, we never compromise on what matters most: customer trust. The TAPP team is the security backbone enabling this mission, building the tooling, automation, platforms, and pipelines that ensure Amazon Health Services can scale securely. Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why