Principal Security TPM, AGS Security Engineering

Amazon • Herndon, VA

57d • $177,000 - $275,300 • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Global Sales (AGS) is establishing a new security engineering team to support the rapid evolution of customer needs, particularly in generative AI and agentic architectures. This team will be responsible for ensuring the AGS field organization can build and innovate quickly and securely. As a Principal Technical Program Manager, you will play a foundational role in defining the security and governance frameworks for this team. You will manage risk across the AGS field, measure performance against AWS-wide security standards, and collaborate with leaders to address security gaps. A key aspect of this role involves building and maintaining the security reviewer community, ensuring they are active, calibrated, and up-to-date with evolving threats and technologies. This position requires extensive cross-functional coordination with various AWS security organizations, Legal, and business leaders to maintain a high security bar while accelerating business objectives. The role involves shaping security practices for emerging engagement types, inventing new methods for risk discovery and reduction at scale, and overseeing programs related to field engagement, prototyping, public content security, internal tooling, and security training. This is a ground-floor opportunity with a global scope, offering the chance to define how the AGS organization operates securely.

Requirements

• 7+ 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 Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of security, compliance and risk management experience
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing competing priorities and using metrics to drive business decisions
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related fields
• 10+ years of technical program management experience leading initiatives that span multiple teams or organizations
• Experience partnering with security engineering, application security, or legal and compliance functions to land cross-functional security outcomes
• Experience designing and running training, accreditation, or community-of-practice programs at scale
• Experience using AI, agents, and automation to scale program execution and risk reduction

Responsibilities

• Own the field's security and governance frameworks (customer builds, prototyping, public content), building on the AWS Security standards and codifying them into the steering docs, skills, MCPs, and agents the field builds with
• Grow the field's security reviewer community, recruiting, training, and accrediting reviewers and keeping their judgment calibrated as technology and threats evolve, so security judgment spreads and reviews stay consistent
• Own field security training on the responsibilities and frameworks the field operates within, partnering with security engineers and AWS Security on content and Field Enablement on delivery
• Measure AGS against AWS-wide security standards and run the business security review that gives leadership a regular, prioritized read on risk, partnering with leaders to close gaps and enabling leaders to run their own
• Partner with the business through post-incident follow-through, helping it articulate what happened, representing it to AWS Security leadership, and supporting it in closing the action items it owns
• Own the AGS field's security roadmap, balancing near-term wins against long-term shifts in how the field builds, so the security bar keeps pace
• Own the governance mechanism for security exceptions and escalations, keeping decisions consistent and documented, and holding the line when stakeholders challenge the process

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: Associate degree