Security Engineer, Bridge

Overview

About Stripe

About The Team

What You'Ll Do

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the Bridge security roadmap from first principles to production.
• Identify and tackle the most important Bridge security risks quickly and pragmatically.
• Integrate with Stripe infrastructure where it makes sense, and find custom solutions where it doesn't.
• Lead threat modeling and hardening efforts for the Bridge money movement systems in collaboration with crypto and infra teams.
• Build key security capabilities, including monitoring, secrets management, incident response, access controls, and CI/CD hardening.
• Reinforce engineering best practices around secure development and infrastructure.
• Ensure Bridge meets compliance and audit expectations as we scale to more regulated markets.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and the Stripe security organization to move fast without compromising safety.
• Who you are

Minimum Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Security engineering.
• Experience building or scaling security programs at a startup or in an embedded role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced startup environments, building security practices from the ground up.
• Startup mindset—scrappy, pragmatic, and quick to solve the most critical problems.
• Comfort writing and debugging backend application code, with Ruby experience preferred.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to ruthlessly prioritize.
• Ability to balance security rigor with speed, especially in fast-moving environments.
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Interest in the potential of crypto and stablecoins to power global financial infrastructure.
• Hybrid work at Stripe
• This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).
• In-office expectations
• 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.
• 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 $196,900 - $295,300.
• 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.
• Hybrid work at Stripe
• This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).
• In-office expectations
• 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.
• 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.