Lead Security Engineer, Stripe
Bridge
$224-336k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Posted today
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Posted today
$224-336k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- Have 8+ years of experience in Security engineering, ideally with time spent in fast-paced startup environments where you’ve built security practices from the ground up
- Have a startup mindset: you’re scrappy, pragmatic, and move quickly to solve the most critical problems
- Are comfortable writing and debugging backend application code (Ruby is a plus, but not required)
- Thrive in ambiguity and know how to ruthlessly prioritize
- Can balance security rigor with speed, especially in fast-moving environments
- Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical partners
- Have experience building or scaling security programs, either at a startup or in an embedded role
- Are excited about the potential of crypto and stablecoins to power global financial infrastructure (you don’t need deep prior knowledge—just curiosity and openness to learn)
What the job involves
- Design, own, and implement Bridge’s security roadmap from first principles to production
- Identify and tackle Bridge’s most important security risks quickly and pragmatically
- Integrate with Stripe’s infrastructure where it makes sense, and find custom solutions where it doesn’t
- Lead threat modeling and hardening efforts for Bridge’s money movement systems in collaboration with crypto and infra teams
- Build key security capabilities (monitoring, secrets management, incident response, access controls, CI/CD hardening, etc)
- Reinforce engineering best practices around secure development and infrastructure
- Ensure Bridge meets compliance and audit expectations as we scale to more regulated markets
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and Stripe’s security org to move fast without compromising safety
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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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