Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms

Overview

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 visibility into the security posture of their Stripe integration. We are expanding to provide a comprehensive security telemetry platform that helps businesses protect their digital ecosystem on Stripe.

As a Senior Software Engineer on this founding team, you will lead the technical design and implementation of our core security data pipelines. You will be responsible for defining how security signals are captured, processed at scale, and delivered to our users through robust, developer-friendly interfaces. If you have security domain knowledge, there are opportunities to help shape product vision.

• 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.
• Engineering 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 will set the bar for code quality, system resilience, and operational maturity for a product that requires 99.99%+ availability.
• Cross-functional Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with Stripe’s core platform and data teams to leverage global infrastructure while ensuring security data remains isolated and protected.

We are looking for an experienced backend and systems engineer who thrives on building new products from scratch. You should have a deep background in distributed systems and a passion for building platforms that empower other developers and security professionals.

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a history of shipping and maintaining complex, large-scale systems.
• Expertise in Data Engineering & Distributed Systems:
  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 mission-critical services with high availability requirements, on-call rotation, and a strong focus on observability and debugging.
• Communication &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Excellent technical writing skills for drafting design documents and the ability to mentor other engineers while collaborating with non-technical stakeholders.

• Security Domain Knowledge:
  Prior experience building security analytics, threat detection systems, or observability platforms.
• Platform Engineering:
  Experience building "as-a-service" infrastructure where the primary users are other engineers or external developers.
• Cloud Native Infrastructure:
  Prior experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Product Intuition: A desire to work on "0-to-1" initiatives where you help define the product requirements and user experience alongside engineering.
• Front-end / Full Stack
  
  Experience:
  
  Prior React / Type Script frontend experience is helpful

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This balance supports in-person collaboration and learning while remaining flexible for individuals and their teams.

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from an office. You may come into the office for meetings, on-sites, and events, but you are expected to work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover relocation costs. Apply for roles that match your location.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $170,400 - $255,700. Additional benefits may include equity, bonuses, 401(k), medical, dental, and vision benefits, and wellness stipends. For non-US locations, salary range can be requested during the interview process.