Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms

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 the core services and streaming APIs that enable enterprise customers to seamlessly ingest security signals into their own internal security operations centers and analytics tools.
• Engineer security signals: Partner with security researchers and threat detection experts to build the 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 the abstraction layers that will support future security products.
• Drive engineering excellence: Set the bar for code quality, system resilience, and operational maturity for a product that requires 99.99%+ availability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with the Stripe core platform and data teams to leverage global infrastructure while ensuring security data remains isolated and protected.

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

• Security domain knowledge, with prior experience building security analytics, threat detection systems, or observability platforms.
• Platform engineering with experience building "as-a-service" infrastructure where the primary users are other engineers or external developers.
• Cloud native infrastructure, with prior experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Product intuition and a desire to work on "0-to-1" initiatives where you help define the product requirements and user experience alongside engineering.
• Front-end or full stack experience is a plus, particularly with React or TypeScript.