Security Engineer, Payments Security

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Security Engineer in Seattle to secure critical payment systems. Responsibilities include developing security strategies, performing security reviews, and engaging with development teams early on to ensure secure architectures. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree, 2+ years of experience with web protocols, security attacks, and remediation techniques. The compensation for this position ranges from $136,000 to $184,000 annually, with comprehensive benefits including health and 401(k) matched plans.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation experience.
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
• Experience with web protocols and common security attacks.
• Experience writing code or scripts.

Responsibilities

• Develop understanding of products and architectures in Amazon Payments.
• Engage early with development teams for secure architecture.
• Perform security reviews and testing.
• Contribute code for security fixes and tools.
• Leverage AI tools for security assessments.

Skills

Web protocols

Common security attacks

Remediation techniques

Coding or scripting

System security vulnerabilities

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

Tools

AWS services

Job description

Description

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

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of web protocols, common security attacks, and remediation (non‑internship) experience
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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