Product Security Engineer Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

Come build the future with us! In Payments Security, we protect foundational systems and products that allow Amazon to accept payments for all goods, content and services that people buy at Amazon and around the world. We're building the next generation of security automation platforms that protect one of the world's largest payment ecosystems.
Picture yourself shaping the future by building software that replaces manual security toil with intelligent automation, enabling Amazon Payments to scale securely at speed. Our focus is on the expansive ecosystem of Amazon Payments, which handles millions of transactions daily across numerous countries and payment methods. Over 100 million customers and merchants send tens of billions of dollars through our systems annually. We believe securing these systems should scale with the business, not with headcount, and we build the platforms that make that possible.
As part of our team, you'll cater to a diverse range of customers, from Product Security engineers performing complex security reviews, to Payments builders looking for solutions that simplify the process of building and operating secure systems. We're crafting the next generation of security automation platforms designed to support Amazon-scale without compromising the highest security standards. Our ambitious goals keep us at the forefront of security innovation, ensuring we not only stay ahead of the curve but also deliver exceptional products that delight our customers. Join us and be a driving force in the future of security at Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer in the Payments Security organization, you will:
- be responsible for designing, architecting, developing, testing, deploying and delivering scalable, multi-tiered software applications or services using modern languages, design patterns, frameworks and technologies.
- work very closely with security engineering teams to design and implement security features and multi-tier distributed services.
- estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes that meet requirements for functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, and adherence to development goals and principles.
- effectively collaborate in a fast paced organization with multiple teams.
Successful candidates for this position must possess strong verbal and written communication skills, be self-driven, and deliver high quality results. You will be able to develop plans and invent mechanisms that scale to meet the broad and diverse needs of teams across Amazon. You will have a strong customer obsession, working to deeply understand the needs of your customers and relentlessly looking to improve their experience and make them more productive.
A day in the life
The team is a strong, close-knit group with a focus on learning, growing, and delivering results together. We have regular architecture and knowledge shares, and our high level of team trust makes this the ideal environment to lead and grow to the next level. You will be interacting with your peers and senior engineers to design solutions for Permission Management, Security Detections, Preventions and Remediation problems. You will be meeting with customers directly, our senior security engineers, principal engineers, applied scientists and service owners who will give their security requirements and review your solutions to better index our efforts. You will be responsible for building automation software and launching it for Amazon to protect against cyber security crimes.
About the team
Your primary focus is building and shipping production software that automates security processes for Amazon Payments. On any given day, you might be writing code for a new automation pipeline, pairing with a Product Security engineer to understand a workflow you're automating, or deploying a service you've been iterating on for the past few sprints.
Your internal stakeholders are Product Security engineers who perform security reviews and Payments service teams who interact with security processes as part of shipping their products. You'll talk to both regularly to understand what's slowing them down and where automation can make the biggest difference.
Beyond day-to-day feature work, you'll contribute to design reviews, and prototype something entirely new when you spot an opportunity to close a gap that nobody else is covering. Our team believes in experimenting, learning, and trying new things even if it means taking risks. We support each other to build innovative solutions and lead the vision of our automation platforms.
About AmSec:
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, or 4+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience with programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java or equivalent
- Experience in AWS cloud-native development, infrastructure as code
- Experience in security systems (identify & access management, threat detection, cryptography)
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.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, VA, Herndon - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually