Cloud Security Engineer

Monograph; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 158,800 - 238,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Equity and company bonus

Job summary

Monograph is seeking a skilled Security Engineer in Seattle, WA to design and operate core security infrastructure for its engineering teams. The successful candidate will have strong software engineering experience and excellent communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary range of $158,800 - $238,200 and allows for hybrid working arrangements. Preferred qualifications include cloud security experience and familiarity with Kubernetes. Join Monograph to contribute to enhancing security across the cloud platform.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and respect for collaboration.
• Software engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment.
• Experience conducting threat modeling in cloud native environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate core security infrastructure for engineering teams.
• Contribute to improving engineering standards and tools.
• Make impactful decisions on security systems and their lifecycle.

Skills

Empathy

Strong communication skills

Collaboration

Software engineering experience

Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP

Tools

Linux systems

Kubernetes

Security monitoring tools

Job description

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

Stripe powers businesses all over the world. We process payments, run marketplaces, detect fraud, help entrepreneurs start a business from anywhere in the world, build world‑class developer‑friendly APIs, and more. Nearly every system we operate interacts with sensitive financial or personal data — making security a top priority for Stripe.

Stripe will succeed at our mission of increasing the GDP of the internet only if we prove ourselves worthy of our users’ trust. As an engineer on the Security team, you will design and develop frameworks, systems, and solutions to ensure the security of Stripe’s engineering infrastructure and, most importantly, privacy of our users’ data.

The Cloud Security team accelerates Stripe’s business priorities by building core security controls and services that empower teams to build quickly and securely on top of a well‑governed cloud platform and partnering with infrastructure teams to advance select critical business priorities using novel infrastructure or integrations as that platform expands.

What will you do?

• 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 will 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: 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

Minimum requirements

• Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
• A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
• The 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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience conducting threat modeling of software or infrastructure in cloud native environments
• Experience with Linux systems, Kubernetes, and/or container‑based platforms
• Prior usage of security monitoring tools (e.g., CSPM, CNAAP)
• Experience in a multi‑cloud, or complex, cloud 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

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 hits a balance between bringing people together for in‑person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on‑sites, meet‑ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $158,800 - $238,200. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

Office locations

Seattle, New York, or South San Francisco HQ

Remote locations

Remote in United States

Team

Security

Job type

Full time