Come build the future with us! In Payments Security, we protect foundational systems and products that allow Amazon to accept payments for all goods, content and services that people buy at Amazon and around the world. We are looking for a high caliber, innovative Security Engineer to secure Amazon Payments most critical businesses protecting mission-critical services and customer experiences. You will focus on securing the ecosystem in Amazon Payments that processes millions of transactions every day across dozens of countries and payment methods. Over 100 million customers and merchants send tens of billions of dollars through our systems annually. We are re-inventing the vision of our platform to provide our internal and external clients the best payment gateway service.
Payments Security owns full-stack Product Security for Payments across Amazon and its business units, deeply supporting the Global Payments businesses. We are part of Amazon's broader Stores Security organization responsible for protecting Amazon’s global information assets. We partner across global Payments business units to innovate in full-stack security (data, application, network, containers, infrastructure), ensuring our Payments applications and infrastructure are secure-by-design from concept to launch and into continuous operations. We are a strategic security partner to our Payments businesses ensuring we uphold the highest security bar for our production and pre-production systems, balancing short-term mitigations with long-term secure-by-design architectural solutions, making Security simpler and differentiated.
We provide security “In the Cloud” and enable scalable mechanisms for software developers and systems to meet Amazon’s security and privacy requirements. We are both a customer and a partner to
AWS in raising security awareness, providing scalable tools, and protecting shared infrastructure.
This position will provide you with a challenging and rewarding opportunity to solve difficult security problems at planetary scale. As a security engineer you will help ensure that customer data is secure across Amazon Payments products and services. You will help define short-term and long-term security strategy. You will balance your efforts between strategic and operational deliverables. You will have the opportunity to work with talented security and other engineering teams within Amazon. You care deeply about keeping Amazon customers data secure and therefore are passionate about finding, and mitigating vulnerabilities/risks by providing actionable guidance to product teams and drive long term security improvements. You're well-known for your excellent prioritization skills as well as your ability to communicate at all levels of an organization (technical and non-technical). The successful candidate must be autonomous, comfortable operating in highly ambiguous situations, and must deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
A Security Engineer in Amazon will be strong in multiple security domains and sought out for advice on technical issues. Efficient time management skills are required along with the ability to deliver results in the face of uncertainty. Engineers in this role must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short versus long term security and business goals. They must also demonstrate resilience and navigate difficult situations with composure and tact. The successful candidate must be one that can handle several difficult challenges and problems, can make risk-based assessments founded on data and facts.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop a broad and deep technical understanding of products, services and architectures pertaining to the Amazon Payments organization.
- Articulate the security state of the business and the effectiveness of security initiatives
- Engage early with development teams at the ideation and design stage to embed security into applications from the start, providing guidance on secure architecture and coding practices
- Perform security reviews including secure design and architecture,
threat modeling, secure code reviews, security testing, and security certifications
- Contribute code for security fixes and paved path solutions directly alongside developers, making the secure path the easy path
- Partner with developers to build scalable, self-service security tools that enable teams to identify and remediate security risks without bottlenecking on security teams
- Develop a broad and deep technical understanding of the services and architectures pertaining to Amazon Payments. Contribute to the short and long-term security strategy to ensure that products are designed and built securely by design while improving the secure software development life-cycle (SSDLC).
- Leverage AI tools and techniques to accelerate security assessments, automate threat detection, and drive innovation in how we secure systems at scale
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.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- 2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non-internship) experience
- Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including
penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- Experience with web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non-internship)
- Experience solving basic problems by writing code or scripts with some assistance
- Experience with
AWS services or other cloud offerings
- Experience in one or more of the following: application security frameworks, security code reviews, incident response, security infrastructure,
penetration testing, mobile security, cloud security, AI security, identity and access controls
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), such as security design review,
threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing
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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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually