Security Engineer, Payments Security
Amazon · Seattle, WA · Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Security Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with AWS, Docker, Security, Full Stack. Compensation is listed at $136,000–$184,000 per year.
- Role
- Security Engineer
- Function
- security
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, WA
- Department
- Systems, Quality, & Security Engineering
- Posted
- May 14, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersCome 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 are looking for a high caliber, innovative Security Engineer to secure Amazon Payments most critical businesses protecting mission-critical services and customer experiences. You will focus on securing the ecosystem in Amazon Payments that processes millions of transactions every day across dozens of countries and payment methods. Over 100 million customers and merchants send tens of billions of dollars through our systems annually. We are re-inventing the vision of our platform to provide our internal and external clients the best payment gateway service. Payments Security owns full-stack Product Security for Payments across Amazon and its business units, deeply supporting the Global Payments businesses. We are part of Amazon's broader Stores Security organization responsible for protecting Amazon’s global information assets. We partner across global Payments business units to innovate in full-stack security (data, application, network, containers, infrastructure), ensuring our Payments applications and infrastructure are secure-by-design from concept to launch and into continuous operations. We are a strategic security partner to our Payments businesses ensuring we…