Stripe

Cloud Security Engineer

Stripe • $120K — $160K *
Seattle, WA 98115In-Person
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Empathy and strong communication skills with a collaborative mindset
  • A learning mindset with adaptability regardless of experience level
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity and drive clear next steps
  • High standards for code quality and mentorship of peers
  • Experience in software engineering within high-stakes production environments
  • Proficiency in assessing system vulnerabilities and solutions
  • Expertise in security on AWS, Azure, or GCP

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and manage security infrastructure for Stripe's engineering teams
  • Maintain high engineering standards across multiple codebases
  • Enhance engineering practices and tooling for team learning
  • Develop innovative security solutions that exceed industry standards
  • Expand Stripe's secure cloud footprint with robust infrastructure
  • Ensure user-friendly security controls
  • Collaborate with infrastructure teams on cloud integrations
  • Make critical decisions on system and security lifecycles
  • Utilize data to set security measurement baselines
  • Design systems that deliver valuable security signals
  • Prototype and evaluate new security tools and methods

Benefits

  • Work on innovative security solutions in a cutting-edge environment
  • Collaborate closely with skilled engineering teams
  • Engage in professional development opportunities
  • Participate in a culture of continuous learning and improvement
  • Influence the evolution of security practices in a leading tech company
Full Job Description
What you'll do
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and operate the core security infrastructure used by all of Stripe's engineering teams in close collaboration with other stakeholders and our users
  • Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you'll encounter
  • Contribute to team learning by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
  • Design and build durable solutions that will advance Stripe's security beyond the state of the art
  • Help expand Stripe's cloud footprint on top of secure, paved roads and guardrails
  • Optimize for security controls that have delightful user experiences
  • Partner closely with infrastructure and engineering teams building integrations with our cloud infrastructure or adopting new cloud managed services
  • Make impactful decisions about systems and security-their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles
  • Use data to determine appropriate baselines against which to measure security
  • Define infrastructure that reliably feeds signals to threat teams
  • Evaluate and prototype new security tools and practices

You may work on
  • Designing and implementing controls that support security invariants and enforce our security principles while providing a surprisingly great user experience
  • Providing a migration path for newly acquired companies onto the Stripe Secure Platform, embedding with their engineers and biasing for action
  • CI tooling for platform-related configuration, including IAM roles, SCPs, and associated components
  • Guardrails and security controls for both commonly used and newer cloud technologies
  • Expanding our cloud identity infrastructure to provide paved paths for AI and agentic access
  • Automation tooling for continually driving down permissions and access across our cloud services
Who you are
Minimum requirements
  • Empathy, strong communication skills, and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
  • A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
  • The ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership
  • High standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar
  • 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
Preferred qualifications
  • 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
  • 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

About Stripe

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Stripe powers businesses all over the world, from the new startup that just launched yesterday to the Fortune 500 companies that we all know and love. Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Dublin, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and more.
Learn more about Stripe
Size
4,000 employees
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Founded
2010
* Ladders Estimates

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