Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms

Stripe; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Company bonus or sales commissions/bon

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stripe is building a security telemetry platform to monitor and protect the digital ecosystem across the world. You will join the Product Security Data Platforms team to design and implement scalable data pipelines and developer-friendly interfaces for security insights.

You'll work on high-throughput streaming data, contribute to architectural decisions, and collaborate with security researchers and threat detection experts. This is a founding team with significant impact from day one.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience with large-scale systems.
• Expertise in data engineering and distributed systems with high-throughput pipelines.
• Strong programming fundamentals in Java, C++, or Rust.
• Operational mindset with high availability, on-call experience, and observability.
• Excellent technical writing and ability to mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable foundations for high-throughput security telemetry pipelines.
• Develop API-first services and streaming APIs for enterprise ingestion.
• Engineer security signals with researchers to surface high-fidelity insights.
• Contribute to data modeling, storage strategies, and abstraction layers.
• Write clean, well-tested code and maintain code quality and resilience.
• Collaborate with platform and data teams to secure data while remaining isolated.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Java

C++

Rust

Observability

On-call

Mentoring

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Spark

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

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

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

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.

You'll contribute to 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're 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 Software Engineer on this founding team, you'll contribute to the technical design and implementation of our core security data pipelines. You'll help build the systems that capture security signals, process them at scale, and deliver them to users through robust, developer-friendly interfaces. This is an opportunity to grow quickly, make a meaningful impact from day one, and help shape a product that directly improves security outcomes for businesses worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable foundations. Implement components of 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 core services and streaming APIs that enable enterprise customers to ingest security signals into their internal security operations centers and analytics tools
• Engineer security signals. Partner with security researchers and threat detection experts to build logic that identifies anomalous behavior and surfaces high-fidelity security insights
• Contribute to technical design. Participate in discussions on data modeling, storage strategies, and the abstraction layers that will support future security products
• Raise the bar for quality. Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to a culture of code quality, system resilience, and operational maturity for a product that requires 99.99%+ availability
• Collaborate cross-functionally. 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\'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

• 2+ years of professional software development experience, with a history of shipping and maintaining complex, large-scale systems
• Expertise in data engineering and distributed systems, with 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
• Operational mindset, experience maintaining business-critical services with high availability requirements, on-call rotation, and a strong focus on observability and debugging
• Communication and collaboration skills, excellent technical writing skills for drafting design documents and the ability to mentor other engineers while collaborating with non-technical stakeholders
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or interest in security analytics, threat detection systems, or observability platforms
• Experience building infrastructure or services used by other engineers or external developers
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure tools such as AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform
• Product intuition and a desire to work on "0-to-1" initiatives where you help define requirements and user experience alongside engineering
• Front-end or full-stack experience, particularly with React or TypeScript
  
  
  

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $156,800 - $235,200. 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.

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.