Director, Payments Security, Stores Business Security Teams

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 Amazons 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 Amazons 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 Amazons CISO organization and VP-level stakeholders to make security a business accelerator rather than a gate.


Key job responsibilities
You will lead an organization of 75 security engineers software engineers data engineers and technical program managers across the US and India. Your scope includes:
- 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 Amazons payments security program to external partners auditors regulators and industry bodies (PCI SSC payment networks)
- Partnering with Amazons 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



A day in the life
You are a security leader who has built and scaled security programs not just inherited them. You combine deep technical credibility with the organizational instincts to know when to build custom solutions and when to adopt platform capabilities. You communicate security risk in business terms and can hold your own in a room of payments engineers debating protocol-level details.
You have strong opinions about how modern security organizations should operate: embedded with builders automated by default measured by outcomes rather than activity. You are energized by ambiguity and comfortable setting direction when the path is unclear.


- Bachelors 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



- 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

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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 WA Seattle - 250000.00 - 338200.00 USD annually