Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

You'll contribute to a large-scale customer-facing security data pipeline and presentation layer. Much like modern security observability platforms and data lakes that have transformed cloud infrastructure, we're building an API-first service that transforms massive streams of behavioral data into actionable security intelligence. This team operates at the intersection of high-throughput data engineering and cybersecurity, creating the systems that will allow the world's most sophisticated companies to monitor, detect, and respond to threats in real time.

What it asks for · 5

• 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

Also a plus

• Experience with or interest in security analytics, threat detection systems, or observability platforms
• Experience building infrastructure or services used by other engineers or external developers
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure tools such as AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform
• Product intuition and a desire to work on "0-to-1" initiatives where you help define requirements and user experience alongside engineering
• Front-end or full-stack experience, particularly with React or TypeScript

What the job covers

• Build scalable foundations. Implement components of 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
• Contribute to technical design. Participate in discussions on data modeling, storage strategies, and the abstraction layers that will support future security products
• Raise the bar for quality. Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to a culture of code quality, system resilience, and operational maturity for a product that requires 99.99%+ availability
• Collaborate cross-functionally. Work closely with Stripe's core platform and data teams to leverage global infrastructure while ensuring security data remains isolated and protected

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• security19×
• data11×
• experience8×
• product6×
• requirements6×
• systems6×
• build5×
• infrastructure5×
• platforms5×
• contribute4×
• engineer4×
• engineering4×
• pipeline4×
• security data4×
• services4×
• core3×

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