Stripe · 10 hours ago
Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expStripe is a leading payment processing company, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their newly established Product Security Data Platforms team. This role involves architecting large-scale security data pipelines and developing API-first services to enhance security visibility for enterprise customers.
FinanceFinTechMobile PaymentsSaaS
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
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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 / TypeScript frontend experience is helpful
Company
Stripe
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.44BKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementThrive CapitalFounders Fund
2025-02-27Secondary Market
2024-04-12Secondary Market· $694.16M
2024-03-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Steffan Tomlinson
CFO
Aitor Guevara
Head Of Engineering
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