Backend Engineer, AI Security

About the role

This is a foundational role within the AI security team at Stripe. The team works on building and partnering to create the right security primitives to enable Stripe to move fast safely. The focus is on building a security tooling layer that sits in the inference path, providing detection and protection against AI-specific threats like prompt injection, jailbreaks, and tool misuse.

Responsibilities

• Build security frameworks integrated with our core AI infrastructure
• Design and implement defenses against AI-specific threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure our AI infrastructure and products are built securely
• Support other engineering teams in integrating security primitives
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes
• Design and build systems that help define the state of the art for AI security

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience independently designing and developing medium-to-large projects
• Experience working collaboratively across multiple engineering teams
• Experience writing high-quality code in a major programming language
• Ability to drive clear next steps when working in an ambiguous environment
• Ability to think creatively and reason clearly in a complex problem domain
• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining reliable infrastructure systems
• Experience in security engineering
• Experience building AI agents or LLM-based systems

Qualifications

• Experience with major programming languages
• Experience with security engineering
• Experience with AI and LLM-based systems

Benefits

• Equity
• Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Wellness stipends

Pay

The annual US base salary range for this role is $190,400 - $285,600. Additional benefits may include: company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

Schedule

The role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).