# Backend Engineer, AI Security

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $157k – $286k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, Java, Rust, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, LLMs, Prompt Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-04-20

> Builds security frameworks and defenses against AI threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks, integrated with core AI infrastructure. Collaborates across teams; requires 5+ years software experience, ideally in security and AI systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build security frameworks integrated with our core AI infrastructure
- Design and implement defenses against AI specific threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure Stripe's AI infrastructure and products are built securely
- Support other engineering teams in integrating security primitives
- Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes
- Design and build systems that help define the state of the art for AI security

## Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience independently designing and developing medium to large projects
- Experience working collaboratively across multiple engineering teams
- Experience writing high quality code in a major programming language
- Ability to drive clear next steps when working in an ambiguous environment
- Ability to think creatively and reason clearly in a complex problem domain

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining reliable infrastructure systems
- Experience in security engineering
- Experience building AI agents or LLM-based systems

## Compensation
- Annual US base salary range: $156,800 - $285,600
- Additional benefits: equity, company bonus, 401(k) plan, medical/dental/vision benefits, wellness stipends

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