Cloud Security Engineer

Who we areAbout StripeStripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.About the teamStripe powers businesses all over the world. We process payments, run marketplaces, detect fraud, help entrepreneurs start a business from anywhere in the world, build world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more. Nearly every system we operate interacts with sensitive financial or personal data—making security a top priority for Stripe.Stripe will succeed at our mission of increasing the GDP of the internet only if we prove ourselves worthy of our users' trust. As an engineer on the Security team, you'll design and develop frameworks, systems, and solutions to ensure the security of Stripe's engineering infrastructure and, most importantly, privacy of our users' data.The Cloud Security team accelerates Stripe's business priorities by building core security controls and services that empower teams to build quickly and securely on top of a well-governed cloud platform and partnering with infrastructure teams to advance select critical business priorities using novel infrastructure or integrations as that platform expands.What you'll doResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and operate the core security infrastructure used by all of Stripe's engineering teams in close collaboration with other stakeholders and our usersUphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you'll encounterContribute to team learning by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processesDesign and build durable solutions that will advance Stripe's security beyond the state of the artHelp expand Stripe's cloud footprint on top of secure, paved roads and guardrailsOptimize for security controls that have delightful user experiencesPartner closely with infrastructure and engineering teams building integrations with our cloud infrastructure or adopting new cloud managed servicesMake impactful decisions about systems and security—their edge cases, failure modes, and life cyclesUse data to determine appropriate baselines against which to measure securityDefine infrastructure that reliably feeds signals to threat teamsEvaluate and prototype new security tools and practicesYou may work onDesigning and implementing controls that support security invariants and enforce our security principles while providing a surprisingly great user experienceProviding a migration path for newly acquired companies onto the Stripe Secure Platform, embedding with their engineers and biasing for actionCI tooling for platform-related configuration, including IAM roles, SCPs, and associated componentsGuardrails and security controls for both commonly used and newer cloud technologiesExpanding our cloud identity infrastructure to provide paved paths for AI and agentic accessAutomation tooling for continually driving down permissions and access across our cloud servicesWho you areMinimum requirementsEmpathy, strong communication skills, and a deep respect for the power of collaborationA learning mindset, regardless of level or experienceThe ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownershipHigh standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the barSoftware engineering experience in a high-stakes production environmentA knack for considering how systems can fail and how to fix themAn ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environmentExperience with security on one or more of AWS, Azure, or GCPPreferred qualificationsExperience conducting threat modeling of software or infrastructure in cloud-native environmentsExperience with Linux systems, Kubernetes, and container-based platformsPrior usage of security monitoring tools (e.g., CSPM, CNAAP)Experience in a multi-cloud or complex cloud environmentA knack for considering how systems can fail and how to fix themAn ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment