Backend Engineer, AI Security

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, aiming to increase the GDP of the internet. They are seeking a Backend Engineer for their AI Security team, responsible for building security frameworks and collaborating on AI infrastructure to ensure safety against specific threats.

Responsibilities:

• Build security frameworks integrated with our core AI infrastructure
• Design and implement defenses against AI specific threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure Stripe's AI infrastructure and products are built securely
• Support other engineering teams in integrating security primitives
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes
• Design and build systems that help define the state of the art for AI security

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience independently designing and developing medium to large projects
• Experience working collaboratively across multiple engineering teams
• Experience writing high quality code in a major programming language
• Ability to drive clear next steps when working in an ambiguous environment
• Ability to think creatively and reason clearly in a complex problem domain
• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining reliable infrastructure systems
• Experience in security engineering
• Experience building AI agents or LLM-based systems