Security Engineering Manager, Payments Security

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 a Manager of Security Engineering for Payments Security Solutions Delivery, involving payment critical data storage and transmission, you will grow a 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 product security 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 and automate them
Owning the strategic planning and paved paths enhancements 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
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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.

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Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field or relevant work experience
- 7+ years of industry experience with hands-on security engineering experience
- 7+ years of risk assessment and enabling organizations making security decisions
- 5+ years managing and building teams (including coaching and mentoring)
- 7+ years of experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience

Preferred Qualifications

- 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

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