Backend Engineer, AI Security

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, and they are seeking a Backend Engineer for their AI Security team. In this foundational role, you will be responsible for building security infrastructure primitives for AI and collaborating with teams to ensure secure AI product development.

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 our 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