Cloud Security Engineer

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

The Cloud Security team accelerates Stripe's business priorities by building core security controls and services that empower teams to build quickly and securely on top of a well-governed cloud platform and partnering with infrastructure teams to advance select critical business priorities using novel infrastructure or integrations as that platform expands.

What it asks for · 8

• Empathy, strong communication skills, and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
• A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
• The ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership
• High standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar
• Software engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment
• A knack for considering how systems can fail and how to fix them
• An ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment
• Experience with security on one or more of AWS, Azure, or GCP

Also a plus

• Experience conducting threat modeling of software or infrastructure in cloud-native environments
• Experience with Linux systems, Kubernetes, and container-based platforms
• Prior usage of security monitoring tools (e.g., CSPM, CNAAP)
• Experience in a multi-cloud or complex cloud environment
• A knack for considering how systems can fail and how to fix them
• An ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment

What the job covers

• Design, build, and operate the core security infrastructure used by all of Stripe's engineering teams in close collaboration with other stakeholders and our users
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you'll encounter
• Contribute to team learning by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Design and build durable solutions that will advance Stripe's security beyond the state of the art
• Help expand Stripe's cloud footprint on top of secure, paved roads and guardrails
• Optimize for security controls that have delightful user experiences
• Partner closely with infrastructure and engineering teams building integrations with our cloud infrastructure or adopting new cloud managed services
• Make impactful decisions about systems and security—their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles
• Use data to determine appropriate baselines against which to measure security
• Define infrastructure that reliably feeds signals to threat teams
• Evaluate and prototype new security tools and practices
• Designing and implementing controls that support security invariants and enforce our security principles while providing a surprisingly great user experience

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• security11×
• experience8×
• cloud7×
• infrastructure6×
• engineering5×
• systems4×
• tooling3×
• user3×
• access2×
• build2×
• clear2×
• collaboration2×
• considering2×
• design2×
• engineering standards2×
• fail2×

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