Security Engineer, Payments Security

About the role

As a Product Security Engineer at Amazon Payments Security, you'll be at the forefront of protecting systems that handle financial transactions and customer data for millions of Amazon customers. Your mission is to fortify our payment systems and payment methods with impenetrable security measures.

Responsibilities

• Develop a broad and deep technical understanding of products, services and architectures pertaining to the Amazon Payments organization.
• Leverage this understanding to conduct architecture reviews, threat modelling and code reviews on web applications, mobile applications and other relevant services.
• Interpret security tools and penetration testing results to stakeholders, providing advice on prioritisation, vulnerability remediation and risk mitigation.
• Create relevant documentation and metrics to your stakeholders and business leaders and deliver these in a clear, concise manner.
• Research and maintain proficiency in attacker Tools, Techniques, Procedures and other security topics.
• Propose and develop materials to help raise the security bar across the Payment Engineering organization.
• Build and integrate innovative and scalable tools, solutions, and processes to enhance the Payments Security’s operations and to provide a customer-centric experience.
• Analyze logging and alerting infrastructure to ensure appropriate coverage and response capability.
• Evaluate impact of current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research.
• Cook up and coordinate responses as necessary across affected teams.
• Participate in security escalations support including on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or experience in IT Security.
• Experience with threat modeling and penetration testing.
• Knowledge of security technology and concepts (Authentication, Authorization, Single sign-on, Cryptography, etc.).
• Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Experience in scripting, programming, or security code reviewing in a common language, such as Python, Java, or C++.
• 2+ years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience.
• Ability to drive multiple technically complex security reviews together while remaining effective at providing security guidance to stakeholders.