Director, Payments Security, Stores Business Security Teams

Amazon • Seattle, WA

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon processes millions of payment transactions daily across 100+ global partners, serving hundreds of millions of customers, sellers, and vendors. Every one of those transactions depends on trust, and Payments Security (PaySec) exists to earn and keep it. We are the dedicated security organization for Amazon's payments ecosystem: Consumer Payments, Financial Services, International Emerging Stores Payments, Gift Cards, India Payments, and Amazon Pay. PaySec operates across the full security lifecycle. Our Product Security engineers embed directly with payments builder teams to shift security left into the development process. Our Security Solutions Delivery team builds the tooling, automation, and data platforms that scale security across the portfolio. Our Security Operations function runs threat detection, threat intelligence, and incident response for payments-critical infrastructure. Together, these teams protect one of the highest-value attack surfaces in e-commerce. We are looking for a Director to lead this organization. You will own the security strategy for Amazon's entire payments domain, set the multi-year vision, and build the team and mechanisms to execute it. You will operate at the intersection of security engineering, business strategy, and organizational leadership, partnering with payments GMs, Amazon's CISO organization, and VP-level stakeholders to make security a business accelerator rather than a gate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering preferably in Computer Science (or related discipline)
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, or related technical fields
• 7+ years leading security organizations including managers of managers

Nice To Haves

• Experience building and operating security programs for large-scale payment or financial services systems
• Deep technical expertise across multiple security domains: application security, network security, cryptography, threat detection, or cloud security
• Track record of defining multi-year security strategy and delivering measurable results
• Experience operating with VP and SVP-level stakeholders
• Experience securing payment card industry (PCI) environments at scale
• Background in both offensive and defensive security disciplines
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams across multiple countries
• History of building security tooling and automation that scales beyond a single team
• Comfort representing your organization externally at industry forums, with partners, or with regulators
• Experience driving security culture change in large engineering organizations where security is not the primary mission

Responsibilities

• Defining and executing the multi-year security strategy for Amazon Payments, covering application security, security engineering, threat detection, offensive security, and security operations
• Building and scaling a high-performing, geographically distributed organization with strong engineering culture and clear career paths across security disciplines
• Driving security standards and mechanisms that payments teams adopt because they make building faster and safer, not because they are mandated
• Owning the security posture of payments-critical infrastructure including cardholder data environments, tokenization platforms, and payment processing services
• Representing Amazon's payments security program to external partners, auditors, regulators, and industry bodies (PCI SSC, payment networks)
• Partnering with Amazon's central security organizations (InfoSec, AWS Security, Stores Security) to influence company-wide security strategy and adopt shared services where they raise the bar
• Setting the technical direction for security tooling and automation that reduces cost-to-serve while increasing coverage, including AI/ML-powered detection, automated security review, and data-driven risk prioritization

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director