Software Engineer, Stripe

• 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

• 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