Cloud Security Architect

Stripe; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer in Seattle to design, build, and operate core security infrastructure across engineering teams, ensuring robust protection of data and privacy. You will uphold high engineering standards, drive security tooling, and partner with infrastructure teams to expand secure cloud capabilities.

You will evaluate new security practices, prototype tools, and contribute to a culture of risk-aware engineering.

Qualifications

• Empathy and collaboration, strong communication.
• A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience.
• Ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership.
• High standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar.
• Software engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment.
• A knack for considering how systems can fail and how to fix them.
• An ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment.
• Experience with security on one or more of AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the core security infrastructure used by all of Stripe's engineering teams in close collaboration with other stakeholders and our users
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you'll encounter
• Contribute to team learning by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Design and build durable solutions that will advance Stripe's security beyond the state of the art
• Help expand Stripe's cloud footprint on top of secure, paved roads and guardrails
• Optimize for security controls that have delightful user experiences
• Partner closely with infrastructure and engineering teams building integrations with our cloud infrastructure or adopting new cloud managed services
• Make impactful decisions about systems and security—their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles
• Use data to determine appropriate baselines against which to measure security
• Define infrastructure that reliably feeds signals to threat teams
• Evaluate and prototype new security tools and practices
• You may work on: Designing and implementing controls that support security invariants and enforce our security principles while providing a surprisingly great user experience
• Providing a migration path for newly acquired companies onto the Stripe Secure Platform, embedding with their engineers and biasing for action
• CI tooling for platform-related configuration, including IAM roles, SCPs, and associated components
• Guardrails and security controls for both commonly used and newer cloud technologies
• Expanding our cloud identity infrastructure to provide paved paths for AI and agentic access
• Automation tooling for continually driving down permissions and access across our cloud services

Skills

Security in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure

Linux systems

Kubernetes

Security monitoring tools

Threat modeling

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer in Seattle to design, build, and operate core security infrastructure across engineering teams, ensuring robust protection of data and privacy. You will uphold high engineering standards, drive security tooling, and partner with infrastructure teams to expand secure cloud capabilities.

You will evaluate new security practices, prototype tools, and contribute to a culture of risk-aware engineering.