Staff Engineer, Stripe
Compliance Foundations
$224-336k
More information about location
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Posted today
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Posted today
$224-336k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for individuals with a strong background in designing and delivering high-performance infrastructure products for both internal and external customers
- We would love to hear from you whether you have spent your entire career in infrastructure or are looking to apply your skill set to the compliance engineering domain for the first time
- 10+ years of technical experience or 7+ years in the security and compliance engineering field
- 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers
- Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth
- Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding
- Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
- Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication
- Empathetic to customer needs, but visionary enough to not just deliver a faster horse
- Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset
- Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to high level of psychological safety for all team members and partner
Desirable
- Experience building and operating SLO-based infrastructures
- Proven track record of developing security and compliance programs within larger organizations
- Familiarity with the security, privacy, or legal aspects of engineering
- Involvement in the design and/or implementation of security and compliance frameworks, including but not limited to GDPR, PCI-DSS, SOC, SOX, ISO-27001, HIPAA, and DORA
What the job involves
- The Compliance Foundations team builds fundamental infrastructure to help Stripe meet its compliance obligations
- Our compliance stack integrates with a broad range of infrastructure technologies and Stripe’s products
- We work closely with teams in infrastructure and product engineering to ensure that compliance technology at Stripe is efficient, scalable, and predictable
- Applying engineering approaches to compliance concepts is a relatively new field in the industry, and Stripe and our team are leading the way at building solutions in this space to help both Stripe and its customers
- You will join as a Technical Lead for one of the most impactful teams at Stripe
- Your role will involve designing and building solutions that address the use cases of various compliance programs, ranging from purely security-focused to those that necessitate oversight of Stripe’s financials
- This position requires a deep understanding of a wide array of Stripe’s technologies and the ability to quickly develop effective partnerships with key stakeholders in engineering, security, finance, and legal teams
- You will oversee the development of solutions that may be created “from scratch,” built on in-house platforms, or leverage third-party solutions
- By collaborating with the team’s technical leaders, you will ensure the software your team builds meets the needs of Stripe and its customers
- We are a highly effective team that consistently delivers high-impact results while genuinely caring for one another
- We expect you to bring your curiosity and critical thinking skills to this challenging domain
- Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive compliance engineering vision, in conjunction with stakeholders in Security, Infrastructure, Finance, Legal, and business teams
- Work with various stakeholders to meet business objectives, adapting to the operating models and preferred styles of other teams
- Partner with Stripe leaders to design and drive the development of compliance engineering components, setting clear technical direction for your team and its partners
- Empower the engineering team to achieve high levels of technical compliance, reliability, and efficiency while fostering curiosity and innovation
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as part of Stripe’s engineering leadership team
- Leverage your experience and critical thinking to develop pragmatic, sustainable solutions
- Craft a compelling vision that balances compliance requirements with business needs, advocating for this balance effectively
- Build a great customer experience for developers and business partners using your products
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."
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-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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