Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms

WHO WE ARE

ABOUT STRIPE

Stripe 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 TEAM

The Product Security Data Platforms team is a newly established engineering team

within Stripe Security. Our mission is to build the foundational infrastructure

that provides our users with unprecedented visibility into the security posture

of their Stripe integration. While Stripe is renowned for industry-leading

payment protection, we are expanding our focus to provide a comprehensive

security telemetry platform that helps businesses protect their entire digital

ecosystem on Stripe.

As a founding member of this team, you'll architect a large-scale

customer-facing security data pipeline and presentation layer. Much like modern

security observability platforms and data lakes that have transformed cloud

infrastructure, we're building an API-first service that transforms massive

streams of behavioral data into actionable security intelligence. This team

operates at the intersection of high-throughput data engineering and

cybersecurity, creating the systems that will allow the world’s most

sophisticated companies to monitor, detect, and respond to threats in real time.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Senior Software Engineer on this founding team, you'll lead the technical

design and implementation of our core security data pipelines. You'll define how

we capture security signals, process them at scale, and deliver them to our

users through robust, developer-friendly interfaces. If you have security domain

knowledge, you'll have opportunities to help shape product vision.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Architect scalable foundations. Design and implement a highly available,

low-latency pipeline capable of processing and augmenting millions of events

per second into structured security telemetry.

* Build API-first products. Develop the core services and streaming APIs that

enable enterprise customers to seamlessly ingest security signals into their

own internal security operations centers and analytics tools.

* Engineer security signals. Partner with security researchers and threat

detection experts to build the logic that identifies anomalous behavior and

surfaces high-fidelity security insights.

* Define technical strategy. Lead the technical roadmap for the platform,

making critical decisions on data modeling, storage strategies, and the

abstraction layers that will support future security products.

* Drive engineering excellence. As a senior leader, you'll set the bar for code

quality, system resilience, and operational maturity for a product that

requires 99.99%+ availability.

* Collaborate cross-functionally. Work closely with the Stripe core platform

and data teams to leverage global infrastructure while ensuring security data

remains isolated and protected.

WHO YOU ARE

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered

for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The

preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

* 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a history of

shipping and maintaining complex, large-scale systems

* Expertise in data engineering and distributed systems, with deep experience

building and operating high-throughput data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Flink,

Spark, or similar streaming technologies)

* Strong programming fundamentals, significant experience in languages like

Java, C++, or Rust

* System design leadership, a proven track record of designing robust, scalable

architectures and leading cross-team technical initiatives from conception to

launch

* Operational mindset, experience maintaining business-critical services with

high availability requirements, on-call rotation, and a strong focus on

observability and debugging

* Communication and collaboration skills, excellent technical writing skills

for drafting design documents and the ability to mentor other engineers while

collaborating with non-technical stakeholders

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Security domain knowledge, with prior experience building security analytics,

threat detection systems, or observability platforms.

* Platform engineering with experience building "as-a-service" infrastructure

where the primary users are other engineers or external developers.

* Cloud native infrastructure, with prior experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and

infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).

* Product intuition and a desire to work on "0-to-1" initiatives where you help

define the product requirements and user experience alongside engineering.

* Front-end or full stack experience is a plus, particularly with React or

TypeScript.