Cloud Security Engineer
Designs, builds, and operates core cloud security infrastructure and controls for Stripe's engineering teams. Collaborates on secure cloud expansions, threat modeling, and integrations with AWS, Azure, or GCP; requires production software engineering experience and security mindset.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate core security infrastructure used by all Stripe engineering teams.
- Uphold high engineering standards and bring consistency to codebases and processes.
- Contribute to team learning by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
- Design and build durable solutions advancing Stripe's security.
- Help expand Stripe's cloud footprint with secure guardrails.
- Optimize security controls for delightful user experiences.
- Partner with infrastructure and engineering teams on cloud integrations.
- Make impactful decisions about systems, security edge cases, failure modes, and lifecycles.
- Use data to determine security baselines.
- Define infrastructure feeding signals to threat teams.
- Evaluate and prototype new security tools and practices.
You may work on:
- Designing/implementing controls supporting security invariants with great UX.
- Providing migration paths for acquired companies onto Stripe Secure Platform.
- CI tooling for IAM roles, SCPs, and components.
- Guardrails for cloud technologies.
- Expanding cloud identity for AI/agentic access.
- Automation for reducing permissions.
Minimum Requirements
- Empathy, strong communication, respect for collaboration.
- Learning mindset.
- Drive clear next steps in ambiguous spaces.
- High standards for code quality.
- Software engineering experience in high-stakes production.
- Knack for system failure analysis.
- Creative/holistic risk reduction.
- Experience with security on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Preferred Qualifications
- Threat modeling in cloud native environments.
- Linux, Kubernetes, container platforms.
- Security monitoring tools (CSPM, CNAAP).
- Multi-cloud or complex cloud environments.
Skills
AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Linux, Cspm, Cnaap, IAM, Scps, Threat Modeling
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