Technical Program Manager, Proactive Security Detective Tooling, API Security Testing and Automation

AWS Security is looking for a Technical Program Manager (TPM) who has a strong passion for security-at-scale. Our team develops tools to automatically find security problems in AWS and Amazon APIs.

This includes cloud services such as EC2 and S3 and also extends to consumer services like Amazon Alexa. This is a high visibility team that solves security challenges at a massive scale.

Our team deals with an immense number of APIs, pushing the envelope on scale and advanced analytical techniques to find and mitigate security threats.

We work closely with AWS security analysts, incident response engineers, and automated reasoning experts to drive security improvements.

Key job responsibilities

• Help shape the vision for how dynamic analysis will improve security at AWS and Amazon.
• Drive engagement with AWS and Amazon service teams, security teams, and partners.
• Resolve ambiguities and align team plans to minimize technical risk and maximize odds of project success.
• Develop and review requirements for security automation tools.
• Track and report the team's progress using metrics that capture impact and value.
• Track and drive software development.

About the team

About Amazon Security

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture.

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Herndon, VA, USA New York, NY, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
• Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
• Experience working directly with engineering teams
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with any combination of the following : mobile security, threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security
• Knowledge and understanding of security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, or application security
• An understanding of APIs and underlying technology
• Experience with multiple programming languages is a definite plus (such as, Java, Python, Kotlin, etc.)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience implementing and / or driving security solutions at the business level
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrable teamwork skills and resourcefulness
• Self-starter
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
10 days ago