Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
We are looking for an experienced engineer to join us and help lead Stripe's Detection Engineering Team. This team is responsible for building security analytics, threat hunting, creating detections as code, and investigating, responding and providing awareness to potential security concerns. Rather than traditional commercial tooling, you’ll help to drive codified processes, data analytics and automation for detection and response at scale. You’ll maintain strong partnerships with product and other engineering teams to help convey threat awareness and to collect requirements for any monitoring and response needs throughout Stripe.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Develop both the long-term vision and strategy for the team and prioritize day-to-day operations
- Work with the business to deliver related and scalable technical solutions
- Partner closely with Engineering teams to ensure a world class security environment
- Develop collaborative relationships across the entire organization at Stripe
- Help the team develop and interface effectively with the rest of Stripe
- Scale the policies and processes of the team to facilitate global impact
- Be metrics driven in your approach across the board
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 4+ years of relevant experience
- A healthy skepticism for the status quo
- Ability to drive concurrent projects and initiatives while managing operational responsibilities
- Software engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment
- A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
- An exemplary, user-focused communication style; emphasizing clarity, empathy and accuracy
- Skill and credibility delivering operational work while maintaining a high bar for quality
- A willingness to lead by example and participate in the work as necessary
- Experience with a broad range of technologies including endpoint detection, network technologies, and AWS cloud services.
- Ability to create a healthy work environment that's both supportive and challenging
- A history of delivering projects through cross team collaboration and partnerships
- Demonstrated success overseeing internal tool development and automation at scale
- Extremely strong focus on compliance, security and risk awareness
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)
- Possess an empathetic, humble, customer-focused demeanor
Preferred qualifications