TL;DR
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe building foundational security data pipelines and APIs. Focus on high-throughput data processing, system design, and delivering security telemetry to enterprise customers.
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 will be architecting 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 are 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 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 significant opportunities for you 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.
- 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.
Who you are
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.
Minimum requirements
- 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 qualifications
- 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