Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Senior Software Engineer will lead the design and implementation of large-scale product security data pipelines, streaming APIs, and security intelligence systems that process high volumes of behavioral data. The role also involves setting technical strategy, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating with platform and data teams.

Responsibilities:

• Architect scalable foundations. Design and implement 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 the core services and streaming APIs that enable enterprise customers to seamlessly ingest security signals into their own internal security operations centers and analytics tools
• Engineer security signals. Partner with security researchers and threat detection experts to build the logic that identifies anomalous behavior and surfaces high-fidelity security insights
• Define technical strategy. Lead the technical roadmap for the platform, making critical decisions on data modeling, storage strategies, and the abstraction layers that will support future security products
• Drive engineering excellence. As a senior leader, you'll set the bar for code quality, system resilience, and operational maturity for a product that requires 99.99%+ availability
• Collaborate cross-functionally. Work closely with the Stripe core platform and data teams to leverage global infrastructure while ensuring security data remains isolated and protected

Requirements:

• 8+ 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
• System design leadership, a proven track record of designing robust, scalable architectures and leading cross-team technical initiatives from conception to launch
• 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
• Security domain knowledge, with prior experience building security analytics, threat detection systems, or observability platforms
• Platform engineering with experience building "as-a-service" infrastructure where the primary users are other engineers or external developers
• Cloud native infrastructure, with prior experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Product intuition and a desire to work on "0-to-1" initiatives where you help define the product requirements and user experience alongside engineering
• Front-end or full stack experience is a plus, particularly with React or TypeScript