Software Development Manager, Leo Security at Amazon
Bellevue, WA
$184,900–$250,200from the description
Aug 14, 2026
Bellevue, WA
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A people-management role leading a multidisciplinary team of software engineers, applied scientists, and security engineers building an AI-driven security platform for Amazon's Project Kuiper satellite constellation. The platform combines LLM agents, a knowledge graph, and real-time streaming pipelines to automate incident response, threat detection, and offensive security testing across global ground infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a player-coach who can set technical direction, own delivery, and stay hands-on in code and architecture reviews.
Senior level · 7+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 55 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 25–85
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $219,401 (middle half $175,322–$306,147). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 18, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is explicitly a people-management position (hiring plan, team growth, direct reports across engineers and scientists), making 11-3021 the right classification over an IC security or software developer code.
The Basic Qualifications contain an unusual compound bullet: '5+ years of designing, building, and operating distributed systems… -Experience leading and influencing your team or organization, OR experience in developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU or other AI acceleration hardware.' The OR construction means LLM/GPU deployment experience is an alternative gate alongside leadership experience — both are treated as required under the Basic Qualifications heading.
The posting requires candidates to be U.S. citizens due to export control laws, but does not gate on holding a security clearance — clearance is not mentioned.
The degree requirement is a Bachelor's in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
The overall years minimum is set to 7 (the '7+ years of engineering experience' gate), which is the broadest role-level experience floor; the 8-year and 3-year figures are tied to specific responsibilities rather than overall experience.
Compensation includes sign-on payments and RSUs in addition to the stated base salary range.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): engineering team management, multi-tier web services, real-time event correlation, human-in-the-loop workflows.
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