Product Security Engineer, Payments Security Expert

4 weeks ago


Herndon, Virginia, United States Amazon Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Product Security Engineer to join our Payments team at Amazon. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for ensuring the security of our payment systems and protecting our customers' sensitive information.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with service teams to identify threats and vulnerabilities throughout the Software Development Life Cycle and provide guidance on mitigating the issues.
  • Identify and prioritize security problems that can be detected using automation.
  • Develop detection prototypes for these security problems to enhance our tool-set for static and dynamic analysis.
  • Work with builders and service teams to address detected security problems in an appropriate and timely fashion.
  • Identify opportunities to prevent security problems at scale.
  • Develop prototypes to prevent these security problems.
  • Document and provide security guidance that will be used across Amazon Payments.
  • Deliver metrics to show effectiveness of our security initiatives.

About the Team

The Amazon Payments Core Security team's mission is to build mechanisms that help prevent security issues from affecting Amazon's Payment Applications. As a Security Engineer in this team, you will work closely with application developers, evangelize security and build scalable vulnerability detection mechanisms that help secure our most critical applications.

What We Offer

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.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object-oriented language experience
  • 3+ years experience with security analysis on cloud services, especially server-less and authentication services.
  • 2 + years experience using data analysis tools and technologies, such as SQL, Jupyter, R, Python.
  • 3+ years experience with active attacks / live scenarios / applied computer security.
  • 3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
  • 3+ years with cloud technologies (AWS preferred, Azure, Google Cloud, etc).

Preferred Qualifications

  • Masters degree in mathematics, computer science, or related engineering disciplines.
  • Familiarity with host and network log analysis.
  • Standing relationships with global associations relevant to the position.
  • Knowledge and experience with hunting utilizing TTPs (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures).
  • Experience with security architecture, system architecture, threat modeling, incident handling/response, reverse engineering, malware analysis, adversary methodologies, and/or threat intelligence.
  • Possess a strong understanding of common enterprise technologies. Extensive knowledge of computing security issues and threat vectors.


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