Backend Engineer, AI Security

About the role

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The AI security team is responsible for building and partnering to create the right security primitives to enable Stripe to move fast safely.

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

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

• 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