Cloud Security Engineer

Overview

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that processes payments, runs marketplaces, detects fraud, and more, empowering businesses worldwide. The Cloud Security team accelerates Stripe's business priorities by building core security controls and services that enable teams to build quickly and securely on a well-governed cloud platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the core security infrastructure used by all of Stripe's engineering teams
• Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to various codebases and processes
• Contribute to team learning by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Design and build durable solutions that advance Stripe's security beyond industry standards
• Partner with infrastructure and engineering teams to integrate new cloud services and manage security
• Make impactful decisions about systems and security, addressing edge cases and failure modes
• Evaluate and prototype new security tools and practices

Requirements

• Software engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment
• A knack for considering how systems can fail and how to fix them
• An ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment
• Experience with security on one or more of AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience conducting threat modeling of software or infrastructure in cloud-native environments
• Experience with Linux systems, Kubernetes, and container-based platforms
• Prior usage of security monitoring tools (e.g., CSPM, CNAAP)
• Experience in a multi-cloud or complex cloud environment

Qualifications

• A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
• The ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership
• A knack for considering how systems can fail and how to fix them
• An ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment

Benefits

• Annual US base salary range: $158,800 - $238,200
• Equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Wellness stipends

Office Locations

• Seattle

Job Type

Full time