Backend Engineer, Stripe

• 2+ years of industry software engineering experience and systems design
• Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
• A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
• The ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership
• 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

Desirable

• As a Software Engineer on the Security Infrastructure team, your work will be a critical part of accomplishing this mission. Together, we will build reliable, comprehensible, and observable security into Stripe's foundations, with the steady support of our leadership team and peers
• Design, build, and operate the core security infrastructure used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• We are hiring for a few different roles within Security Infrastructure, potential teams and responsibilities include: Authorization Infrastructure (Seattle based):
• Designing, building and operating highly reliable authorization infrastructure to protect resources (e.g. services and data) at Stripe
• Providing comprehensive and easy-to-use authorization solutions to mitigate inappropriate access
• Providing continuous identity governance via access visibility and access intelligence
• Secure Endpoint Access (New York based) :
• Building and operating Stripe’s zero-trust networking infrastructure to provide secure, context aware access to internal resources
• Creating fast, secure by default reverse proxies that power and protect internal services for Stripes across the globe
• Providing an exceptional user experience for Stripe engineers to create, develop and test internal services from a variety of platforms
• Cloud Security (Seattle based):
• Securely expanding our usage of AWS to include 100s, and eventually 1000s, of accounts, each configured with the proper security controls and baselines
• Building paved-path tooling that enable our engineers to interface with the cloud while enforcing least-privilege and audited access
• Partnering with infrastructure teams to carefully review planned cloud deployments for cloud security best practices
• Helping to design a secure, scalable cross-account networking strategy for cloud services