Technical Program Manager, Amazon Application Security
Amazon
DESCRIPTION
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.
In Amazon Stores, we ship some of the widest arrays of technology found at any company. From Amazon.com to world class machine learning pipelines, from leading-edge digital healthcare to no-checkout retail, we push the boundaries of technology in every direction using the globe’s largest AWS deployment.
We are hiring a Technical Program Manager to join our new Application Security Research team. The team is focused on identifying recurring application security issues at scale across all of Amazon’s Business Units using traditional and novel (Generative AI-based) technologies. Join us as a founding TPM and help shape the future of this dynamic new team from the ground up. The Technical Program Manager will lead engagements with other security teams across Amazon, discussions with builder teams from various business units, manage the project lifecycle of all research activities, create team metrics and report on the team’s successes.
Key job responsibilities
- Plan, organize, and manage all phases of the project lifecycle ensuring successful delivery. This includes defining success criteria, developing and managing project governance plans, project schedules, team goals, communication strategies and project milestones.
- Build and manage relationships with key internal stakeholders including senior business leaders, development teams, application security engineering teams and other partner security teams while advocating on behalf of our customers to deliver on their security goals.
- Guide the evolution and adoption of internal security solutions, with complex priorities, prioritizing the work most beneficial to Amazon customers.
- Define and implement best practice methods, processes, tools and continuous improvement initiatives aimed at scaling and increasing the efficiency of Amazon’s security guidance and builder support processes.
- Own the creation and delivery of business proposals (growth, new areas of focus, etc) and metrics to security leadership.
- Proactively identify and manage program risk, identifying paths to overcome risks, and escalating when necessary.
- Influence, negotiate, resolve conflicts and achieve results through others who are not direct reports.
- Create metrics and dashboards to represent the team’s work to leadership. You should be fluent in querying languages (SQL or similar) and using dashboard software like QuickSight.
- Use security knowledge and business context to influence risk severity attribution and risk prioritisation.
- Advise to builder teams on risk mitigation strategies and drive remediation or reduction of security risk.
- Recognise systemic security issue patterns based on data and contribute to the team research projects prioritisation.
- Convey detailed technical security knowledge to engineering teams when discussing issues identified by the team.
About the team
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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.