Security Engineer, Payments Security

About This Role

This role is about protecting Amazon's payment systems and customer financial data. It involves fortifying payment methods with strong security measures and promoting best security practices within the internal Payments ecosystem. The role suits a deeply curious individual with technical expertise who can work in a fast-paced environment with broad business impact.

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 modeling, and code reviews on web applications, mobile applications, and other relevant services
• Interpret security tools and penetration testing results to stakeholders, providing advice on prioritization, vulnerability remediation, and risk mitigation
• Create relevant documentation and metrics for 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

Requirements

• 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++

Nice to have:

• Experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
• Experience implementing security solutions at the cross-team level
• 1+ year of experience in Secure SDLC