Security Engineer

Stripe; United States; On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe's Abuse Control Engineering (ACE) team seeks an Abuse Control Engineer to design, prototype, and incubate technical defenses safeguarding Stripe’s financial ecosystem from complex abuse vectors. You will translate threat intelligence into precise control requirements and drive automated safeguards across API and product surfaces.

Collaborating with product engineers, you’ll implement rate-limiting, authentication checks, and input validation while balancing security with product velocity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Software Engineering, Application Security, or Anti-Abuse Engineering in a high-scale production environment.
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software development background with expert proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or similar production languages, alongside expert SQL skills for analyzing system telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Rapid Control Prototyping: Design, prototype, and deploy technical controls across API, protocol, and product boundaries to immediately close high-impact abuse vectors.
• Control Co-Design: Collaborate closely with teams across Stripe to co-design resilient, secure controls across payment, onboarding, identity, and Connect surfaces.
• Risk Experimentation: Run rigorous experiments and A/B tests to measure risk reduction against legitimate user conversion impact, optimizing controls to minimize friction while neutralizing threats.
• Regression Testing: Build comprehensive regression testing suites and automated attack simulations with Abuse Research to ensure mitigated abuse vectors do not recur.
• Stakeholder Management: Define handoff criteria, operational documentation, and target dates to transfer successful controls to product teams.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

SQL

API safeguards

Automated testing

Collaboration

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Cybersecurity/Software Eng

Tools

Databricks

Trino

PySpark

FT3 framework

Job description

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.

Who we are

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

Abuse Control Engineering (ACE) is Stripe’s rapid-response technical defense and control incubator. When urgent abuse vectors emerge, ACE bridges the gap using real attacker telemetry to prototype, test, and deploy software safeguards before vulnerabilities can be exploited at scale. We partner closely with Fraud, Risk and Product Engineering to run rigorous experiments, balancing aggressive risk mitigation against legitimate user conversion. Operating as both a strike team and an incubator, ACE builds automated regression suites in partnership with Abuse Research to permanently block threat recurrence and seamlessly transfers mature controls to long-term product owners across Stripe.

What you’ll do

As an Abuse Control Engineer on the Abuse Control Engineering (ACE) team, you will design, prototype, and incubate technical defenses that safeguard Stripe’s financial ecosystem against complex, cross-cutting abuse vectors.

Where emerging threat patterns identify Stripe product weaknesses, ACE steps in to rapidly build and experiment with technical safeguards. Driven by empirical evidence and Stripe’s FT3 (Fraud Taxonomy 3.0) framework, you will translate threat intelligence into hard technical control requirements (e.g., API rate-limiting, step-up challenges, parameter validation, pre-debit holds). You will carefully balance security and product velocity, running experiments to evaluate risk reduction against user conversion impact. Managing controls through a strict incubation lifecycle, you will build automated regression suites to prevent recurrence and partner with native product teams to hand off mature, long-term defenses.

Responsibilities

• Rapid Control Prototyping: Design, prototype, and deploy technical controls across API, protocol, and product boundaries to immediately close high-impact abuse vectors. Evidence-Based Technical Requirements: Translate empirical attacker evidence and FT3 threat research Abuse Research, Fraud and Security into precise technical abuse requirements and control specifications.
• Control Co-Design: Collaborate closely with teams across Stripe to co-design resilient, secure controls across payment, onboarding, identity, and Connect surfaces.
• Risk Experimentation: Run rigorous experiments and A/B tests to measure risk reduction against legitimate user conversion impact, optimizing controls to minimize friction while neutralizing threats.
• Regression Testing: Build comprehensive regression testing suites and automated attack simulations with Abuse Research to ensure mitigated abuse vectors do not recur.
• Stakeholder Management: Execute ACE’s incubation model by defining handoff criteria, operational documentation, and target dates to transfer successful controls to product teams.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Software Engineering, Application Security, or Anti-Abuse Engineering in a high-scale production environment.
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong software development background with expert proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or similar production languages, alongside expert SQL skills for analyzing system telemetry.
• Hands-on engineering experience building API-level safeguards, rate-limiting frameworks, authentication/authorization checks, or input validation controls.
• Demonstrated experience with automated testing frameworks, including writing unit, integration, and regression tests for critical backend software.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of partnering across security, product, and platform teams to drive technical outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of designing and executing A/B tests, evaluating control efficacy, and balancing security safeguards against user conversion friction.
• Deep expertise in threat modeling, secure system architecture, and modern application security design principles.
• Familiarity with established threat frameworks (e.g., FT3, MITRE ATT&CK) and applying adversary kill chain analysis to build resilient defenses.
• Strong domain knowledge of financial fraud vectors, threat actor TTPs, and attacker infrastructure (e.g., Account Takeover, Card Testing, Credential Stuffing).
• Hands-on experience with large-scale data processing platforms (e.g., Databricks, Trino, PySpark) to monitor and measure control performance across distributed systems.
• Demonstrated capability in incubating software features, establishing clear operational handoff criteria, and seamlessly transitioning ownership to partner engineering teams.

Working remotely at Stripe

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.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $173,000 - $259,600. 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.

• equity
• company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• medical, dental, and vision benefits
• wellness stipends

We look forward to hearing from you.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.