# Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Kafka, Flink, Spark, Java, C++, Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, React, TypeScript
**Posted:** 2026-03-31

> Leads design and implementation of scalable security data pipelines and API-first services to deliver real-time security telemetry for enterprise customers. Requires 8+ years in data engineering, distributed systems, and languages like Java, C++, or Rust.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Architect scalable foundations: Design and implement 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.
- Define technical strategy: Lead the technical roadmap for the platform, making critical decisions on data modeling, storage strategies, and abstraction layers.
- Drive engineering excellence: Set the bar for code quality, system resilience, and operational maturity for a product requiring 99.99%+ availability.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with Stripe’s core platform and data teams to leverage global infrastructure while ensuring security data isolation.

## Minimum Requirements

- 8+ years of professional software development experience, with history of shipping and maintaining complex, large-scale systems.
- Expertise in data engineering & distributed systems: 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**.
- System design leadership: Proven track record of designing robust, scalable architectures and leading cross-team technical initiatives.
- Operational mindset: Experience maintaining mission-critical services with high availability, on-call rotation, observability, and debugging.
- Communication & collaboration: Excellent technical writing skills and ability to mentor engineers while collaborating with non-technical stakeholders.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Security domain knowledge: Prior experience building security analytics, threat detection systems, or observability platforms.
- Platform engineering: Experience building \"as-a-service\" infrastructure for engineers or external developers.
- Cloud native infrastructure: Prior experience with **AWS**, **Kubernetes**, and infrastructure-as-code (**Terraform**).
- Product intuition: Desire to work on \"0-to-1\" initiatives defining product requirements and user experience.
- Front-end/full stack experience: Prior **React** / **TypeScript** frontend experience.

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