Senior Data Engineer, Payments Security

- 5+ years of data engineering experience
- Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, or NodeJS
- Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe data modeling decisions and data engineering strategy
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience as Data Engineer in an application security, product security, or systems security team
- Master's degree
- Experience providing technical leadership on high-impact cross-fucntional technical project
- Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best practices on data engineering

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $139,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $240,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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 are looking for an exceptional Senior Data Engineer to focus on Data Engineering, Insights, and Analytics, requiring deep technical skills, strong business acumen and a deep analytical background to provide actionable data-driven insights and decision support.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will have the opportunity to partner with a wide range of stakeholders that include Security Engineers, TPMs, Software Developers, and leaders in both Payments Security, as well as Payments businesses in Amazon. You will focus on defining, building, deploying, and evolving data insights that support our efforts in 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.

You will be an enabler to the Payments Security organization which owns full-stack Product Security for Payments across Amazon and its business units, deeply supporting the Global Payments businesses.

This position will provide you with a challenging and rewarding opportunity to help solve difficult security problems at planetary scale using your data engineering expertise. As a Senior Data Engineer you will help define short-term and long-term data engineering strategy. You will balance your efforts between strategic work and operational deliverables. You will have the opportunity to work with junior Data Engineers in PaySec, and other data engineering teams within Amazon. You care deeply about keeping Amazon customers data secure and therefore are passionate about finding data sources, transforming them into actionable insights to security and product teams, and drive long term improvements to our data engineering program. You are well-known for your excellent prioritization skills as well as your ability to communicate at all levels of an organization (technical and non-technical). The successful candidate must be autonomous, comfortable operating in highly ambiguous situations, and must deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate should have strong communication skills and ability to prioritize effectively to ensure timelines are met. You will own projects end-to-end, from engaging with customers to production and delivery of insights used by the organization to make key business and security decisions. You should be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big and be creative (while still paying careful attention to detail). You think in terms of architecture, not just code. You proactively work to mature and improve the data engineering program in Payments Security.


Key job responsibilities
- Lead the data strategy for Payments Security, ranging from data pipeline architecture, metric definition, data gathering, to tool selection.
- Provide data-related support including defining requirements, identifying new data sources, creating and maintaining data pipelines, and developing insights and analytics that PaySec leadership and engineers use to achieve PaySec goals.
- Create and maintain roadmaps for the data engineering program in PaySec to keep focus in our efforts. Create mechanisms for regular review with Payments Security leadership and other stakeholders.
- Define and refine PaySec metrics including KPIs, P0 metrics, Business Scorecards, and build the data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics associated with them.
- Work with junior Data Engineers to build dashboards to support Payments development teams, Payments Security, and other teams so they can take action on items such as outstanding security findings.
- Support reporting requirements including MBR/QBR, Domain Reviews, and other Payments Security activities that require data reporting.
- Mentor junior Data Engineers, Business Intelligence Engineers, as well as Security Engineers, and other functions in Payments Security helping them advance their data skills.
- Develop a broad and deep understanding of the services and architectures pertaining to Amazon Payments. Contribute to the short and long-term data strategy to ensure that products are designed and built securely by design.
- Lead new, reoccurring, or ah-hoc data engineering requests with end-to-end ownership.
- Support team building, recruiting and onboarding activities.
- Must be a kind human who enjoys working in a fun team

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