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? Fortify our payment systems and payment methods with impenetrable security measures.

Amazon Payments processes millions of transactions every day across numerous countries and payment methods. Over 100 million customers and merchants send tens of billions of dollars flow through our systems annually. At Amazon Payments Security, we play a crucial role in promoting best security practices within the internal Payments ecosystem, as well as spearheading the development of secure payment products that prioritize data protection from their inception.

Key job 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. Coordinate responses as necessary across affected teams.
• Participate in security escalations support including on-call rotation.

A day in the life

As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with application development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing novel services. In a given day, you might be inspecting an application's code for security issues, building a new framework to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or fine-tuning the design for a new service.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or experience in IT Security
• 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
• 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++

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
• Experience implementing security solutions at the cross-team level
• 1+ year of experience in Secure SDLC
• Ability to drive multiple technically complex security reviews together while remaining effective at providing security guidance to stakeholders

Pay

USA, WA, Seattle - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually. 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.

Benefits

Amazon 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.

About the team

Payments Security team operates on the mission to eliminate all trustbusters related to Amazon's payment experience, protect and be good custodians of the sensitive data customers trust us with. A security engineer in Payments Security team will work closely with application developers, evangelize security and build scalable detection and prevention mechanisms that help secure applications.

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