Security Engineer, Stripe
Threat Detection
$136.8-205.2k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$136.8-205.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with demonstrated expertise in both offensive and defensive tactics
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field
- Experience in conducting advanced penetration tests, adversary simulations, and vulnerability assessments
- Deep understanding of the cyber threat landscape, including advanced attack vectors and countermeasures
- Proficiency in using cybersecurity tools and technologies for attack simulation and defense, including custom tool and script development
Desirable
- Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively conveying complex security issues to diverse audiences
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to policy and procedure development
- Familiarity with industry standards and regulations related to cybersecurity
- A passion for continuous learning and staying updated on the latest cybersecurity developments
- Join Stripe's Threat Detection Team to shape and protect the future of global financial infrastructure in an environment where your work is impactful and valued
What the job involves
- The Threat Detection Team at Stripe represents a fusion of offensive and defensive cybersecurity expertise. We focus on both simulating real-world cyber attacks and developing resilient defenses. Our team, operating across US time zones, works closely with global stakeholders, ensuring our impact is broad and meaningful
- As a Threat Detection Team Engineer, you'll play a dual role in both attacking and defending Stripe's digital assets
- You will execute advanced adversary simulations, assess the resilience of our networks, systems, and applications, and use your findings to enhance our defensive strategies
- Collaborating with internal teams and external partners, you will play a vital role in enhancing our offensive and defensive security posture and staying ahead of emerging threats
- Your dedication to continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals will contribute to the overall effectiveness of our detection team operations
- Join us in our mission to safeguard our organization and stakeholders from evolving cyber risks
- Execute sophisticated adversary simulation exercises that mimic real-world attacks, focusing on high-performance computing and storage environments
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive library of threat actor profiles and simulation scenarios to evaluate and improve security controls and incident response plans
- Integrate findings from adversary simulations into security strategies, enhancing the organization's overall defensive posture
- Document and effectively communicate the outcomes of simulation exercises to a broad audience, providing actionable insights and recommendations
- Collaborate with cybersecurity and other cross-functional teams to refine security policies and procedures, fortifying defenses based on simulation feedback
- Design, build, and use custom tools and scripts to automate and enrich adversary simulation activities, ensuring they remain cutting-edge and impactful
- Stay informed about the latest cybersecurity trends and advancements, ensuring our adversary simulation practices are current and effective
- Train and mentor cybersecurity team members in adversary simulation techniques and strategies, fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill enhancement
- Work closely with software development teams, ensuring security measures are an integral part of the software development lifecycle
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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