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Description

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 through our systems annually. We are re-inventing our platform's vision to provide our internal clients such as Digital, Retail, AWS, B2B, and others, the best payment gateway service benchmarked against the top external alternatives.

As the Senior Security Engineering Manager for Payments Product Security involving payment critical data storage and transmission, you will grow a global team that can solve some of the most challenging and exciting problems to effectively respond to large-scale threats against Amazon Payments services. You will own the vision and architecture for your products. You will work closely with your customers, partner teams, and core platform engineering teams to ensure the needs of your customers are clearly understood and effectively addressed. You will collaborate with the senior leadership team to drive key engineering and business decisions that achieve the right outcomes. Since our systems are foundational to the Amazon ecosystem, you will also have the opportunity to learn about various businesses across Amazon.

A successful candidate will have an established background as a Security Engineering Manager responsible for high security environments and developing security solutions at scale . This will include deep experience in application and infrastructure security domains as well as managing software delivery.

Key job responsibilities

Hiring, developing, and mentoring security engineers, software engineers, and managing the day-to-day activities of the team

Working closely with developers, business leaders, and other security experts to uncover problems and develop the best approaches to solve them

Owning the strategic planning and development roadmaps for the organization

Building cadence and connection with the payment teams the role supports

Communicating effectively with senior management as well as with colleagues from research teams, software engineering teams, and other technical and business teams

Regular reporting on the status of the security challenges and progress toward solving them

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security

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.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field or relevant work experience

- 10+ years of industry experience with hands-on security engineering experience

- 10+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions

- 10+ years managing and building teams (including coaching and mentoring)

- 10+ years of experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience

Preferred Qualifications

- Significant experience and detailed technical knowledge in multiple areas of: security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, and application security

- Experience designing and/or reviewing the security of systems in conjunction with a development team

- Demonstrated track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements

- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor other managers and security engineers while building and maintaining high agility and high morale Excellent written and verbal technical communication with an ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences

- Graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Computer science/Math or related field

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $187,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $324,100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.