Amazon is seeking qualified Product Security Engineer to join our innovative, high energy Payments Product Security team and work within the Payments Security (PaySec) organization. Amazon Payments processes millions of transactions every day across numerous countries and payment methods. Paramount to our success is ensuring that our customer data is secure.
As a product security engineer within PaySec, you will partner with engineering teams in a consulting facility throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), to ensure that applications are designed and built securely. You will identify potential vulnerabilities in the applications and enable developers to understand and remediate such identified vulnerabilities.
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 training 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 PaySec’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.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our 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.
Mentorship 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.
- 5+ 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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
- 3+ years of experience in Secure SDLC.
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