Senior Technical Program Manager, AppSTAR COMPASS

Own the program that brings security review into the LLM age on a brand-new team building it at Amazon scale. Youll drive an effort that touches tens of thousands of engineers a dozen partner teams and a security review model the company is rebuilding from the ground up.

Security review has always been a bottleneck. A developer ships a change waits for someone to look at it and the security team drowns in a queue it can never fully clear. Were ending that tradeoff. Our engine evaluates changes as they happen decides how much scrutiny each one actually needs and handles the common case automatically: no wait for the developer no queue for the reviewer.

The hard part isnt any single system. Its the seams! The signal sources we depend on the platforms we write into the reviewers whose workflow were changing and the teams whose roadmaps have to line up with ours. Thats the job. The team is funded and forming now and youll be the person who turns a strategy into a sequenced plan with owners dates and evidence that it worked.

- Own a technically deep program end to end from requirements through a measured pilot to scaled rollout
- Work across engineering security and platform teams with real dependencies and real deadlines
- Define what success looks like and hold the program to it


Key job responsibilities
- Own the program end to end: requirements plan sequencing dependencies risks and delivery against measurable goals.
- Run the requirements pass across every group in the loop including the engineers whose changes get evaluated the security engineers who handle escalations and the managers who staff and measure the work and turn what you learn into a concrete build backlog.
- Manage the cross-team dependencies this platform runs on: the telemetry and signal sources feeding it the visibility platforms it writes into and the classification data it consumes. Negotiate interfaces and get them onto partner roadmaps.
- Design and run a bounded pilot with explicit exit criteria then drive the decision about what happens next based on what the data says.
- Define the metrics that tell us the system is working: how accurately it routes how well its confidence tracks reality and whether escalations reach resolution.
- Drive crisp technical decisions in design reviews. Ask the questions that surface risk early and escalate with judgment when a dependency slips.
- Own program communication to senior leadership: status tradeoffs and risk stated plainly.
- Build the operating rhythm for a new team from scratch and keep process to the minimum that actually helps.


A day in the life
Youll start most days on dependencies: which partner team owes you an interface what slipped what you need to escalate. Midday youre in a design review asking whether a decision creates a problem two quarters out or interviewing reviewers to understand how they actually work before we build for them. Afternoons youre in the data checking whether the pilot is hitting its exit criteria and writing the update that goes to leadership. Some weeks youre building the plan; others youre rebuilding it because the pilot told you something inconvenient.

About the team
Were a new team with a specific job: decide how security attention gets spent and make that decision automatically. Our customers are the engineers shipping code and the security engineers reviewing it. Today both pay a tax we think is avoidable. We work in the open with a lot of partner teams because the interesting problems live between systems rather than inside ours. Wed rather encode expertise into a mechanism than depend on any one person holding it and we care more about getting the decision right than owning it.

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 hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont 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 Amazons 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 its 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
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll 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 theres nothing we cant achieve.

- 5 years of technical product or program management experience
- 7 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3 years of software development experience
- 5 years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules

- 5 years of project management disciplines including scope schedule budget quality along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TX Austin - 148700.00 - 201200.00 USD annually