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Principal TPM, Stores BST, StoresSec

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    2 days ago

    Job Description

    What does security look like when AI agents are writing and rewriting the software behind one of the world"s largest retail businesses? Point-in-time reviews can"t keep up, and continuous visibility becomes the foundation. Amazon Stores Security protects the systems, data and customers behind Amazon"s Stores business. We"re looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager to own our Observability program. The program gives Amazon a clear, current picture of the systems we run and how they behave, and turns that picture into security insights people can act on.

    In this role, you"ll set long-term direction for one of the most complex programs in Stores Security. You"ll lead a broad set of engineering, science and security partner teams, influence senior leaders, and make sure security keeps up with how fast Amazon builds. If you love ambiguous, large-scale technical problems where the right answer protects customers, this role is for you.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Own strategy and delivery end-to-end: Define and drive a multi-year roadmap for security observability across a large, varied technology landscape. Turn ambitious goals into clear, executable plans with measurable outcomes.
    • Make security visibility the default: Partner with developer tooling and platform teams so security visibility is built in from the start, not added by builders after the fact.
    • Expand visibility across a diverse environment: Drive programs that extend visibility to cloud services, corporate and operational devices, third-party relationships and newly integrated businesses.
    • Turn data into action: Lead work that turns large volumes of security data into accurate, prioritized signals. Build the mechanisms that measure signal quality and help teams fix issues faster, with more automation over time.
    • Prepare security for AI agents: Help shape how Amazon observes and governs AI agents as they become a bigger part of how software gets built and run.
    • Drive technical depth, not just coordination: Go deep enough to challenge tradeoffs in large-scale data systems, detection approaches, machine learning and agentic architectures. Know where the real risks hide.
    • Balance impact and cost: Make data-driven decisions about scale, cost and efficiency for a program with significant infrastructure needs.
    • Communicate like a strategist: Write clear planning docs, business reviews and executive communications that drive alignment and decisions across many organizations.
    • Anticipate, mitigate, accelerate: Manage complex cross-team dependencies and surface risks early. Use risk management to prioritize, not paralyze.
    • Use AI to move faster: Use AI tools to speed up planning, combine status across teams and shorten the time from insight to action.
    • Raise the bar: Mentor TPMs, set standards for how large security programs are run, and shape how Stores Security delivers at scale.

    A day in the life

    You might start your morning adjusting a delivery plan based on a new signal about how fast agent-driven development is growing. Then you jump into an architecture review where your risk instincts meet a principal engineer"s design (and something better emerges). After lunch, you"re leading an executive review, working through tradeoffs between speed, accuracy and cost in real time. By end of day, you"ve unblocked a partner team, drafted a plan for a capability no one has built before, and given the team a sharper way to sequence the next launch. Your work protects Stores customers at a scale few security programs reach.

    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 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.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Alliance/Partner Marketingunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Binary Search Treeunmatched
    • Business Planunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Customer Experienceunmatched
    • Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
    • Editingunmatched
    • Environmental Workunmatched
    • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
    • Healthcareunmatched
    • Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
    • Machine Learningunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Programming Toolsunmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Quality Metricsunmatched
    • Retailunmatched
    • Riskunmatched
    • Risk Managementunmatched
    • Technical Leadershipunmatched

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