Software Engineer, Stripe
Cloud Security
$141.5-212.3k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$141.5-212.3k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Deep experience with security on one, or more of, AWS, Azure, or GCP
Desirable
- Designing and implementing controls that support security invariants and enforce our security principles while providing a surprisingly great user experience
- Cloud control plane proxy systems which guarantee that the access to raw cloud interfaces comprise the Stripe Secure Platform are performed through safe and secure interfaces
- Providing a migration path for newly acquired companies onto the Stripe Secure Platform
- CI tooling for platform-related configuration: IAM roles, SCPs, and associated components
- Ensuring all cloud infrastructure is defined in code and strict change management is in place
- Guardrails and security controls for commonly used and newer cloud technologies
What the job involves
- The Cloud Security team defines security primitives and guardrails to allow our colleagues to quickly and confidently build for Stripe’s users
- Our scope includes cloud security architecture, data-driven definition of security baselines, centralized controls, and strategic direction of security efforts for our cloud environment
- 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 will 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
- Optimize for security controls that have delightful user experiences
- 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
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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