Authorization Infrastructure Engineer — Secure & Scalable

Stripe; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is looking for an engineer who is passionate about addressing tough problems in the authorization space. This role is critical for Stripe and the future of the commercial internet.

You will build and maintain authorization infrastructure, understand user needs across product and infrastructure teams, and deliver scalable, policy-driven solutions. Join a team that protects resources and maintains trust across Stripe users.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of professional hands-on software development experience.
• Experience in the security domain.
• Curious and learning mindset, regardless of level.
• Empathy, strong communication, collaboration.
• Able to work cross-functionally with trust across levels.
• Drives clear next steps when ownership is unclear.
• Thinks creatively and holistically when solving problems.
• Prefers simple, scalable solutions and strong code quality.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable, performa nt and scalable authorization infrastructure (e.g. libraries, frameworks, services).
• Build comprehensive understanding of authorization needs of our users (e.g. product teams and infrastructure teams).
• Build comprehensive, easy-to-use, and policy driven authorization solutions.
• Collaborate with our users to adopt our authorization solutions to protect their resources by providing a great user experience.
• Build access visibility and continuous policy governance to empower resource owners, legal and compliance to put risk of inappropriate access under control.

Skills

Software development

Security domain

Collaborative mindset

Cross-functional comms

Problem solving

Tools

Go

Java

Ruby

Job description

Stripe is looking for an engineer who is passionate about addressing tough problems in the authorization space. This role is critical for Stripe and the future of the commercial internet.

You will build and maintain authorization infrastructure, understand user needs across product and infrastructure teams, and deliver scalable, policy-driven solutions. Join a team that protects resources and maintains trust across Stripe users.