Stripe is hiring a Security Engineer

Stripe's Bridge team is hiring a Security Engineer to build and scale our foundational security program. Bridge is Stripe's fintech innovation hub focused on building a modern, stablecoin-powered cross-border payments network. In this role, you'll design a security program from first principles while leveraging Stripe's mature infrastructure and best practices, operating with the pace and autonomy of a startup within a trusted fintech leader.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement Bridge’s security roadmap from first principles to production.
• Identify and tackle Bridge’s most important security risks quickly and pragmatically.
• Integrate with Stripe’s infrastructure where it makes sense, and find custom solutions where it doesn’t.
• Lead threat modeling and hardening efforts for Bridge’s money movement systems in collaboration with crypto and infrastructure teams.
• Build key security capabilities, including monitoring, secrets management, incident response, access controls, and CI/CD hardening.
• Reinforce engineering best practices around secure development and infrastructure.
• Ensure Bridge meets compliance and audit expectations as we scale to more regulated markets.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and Stripe’s security organization to move fast without compromising safety.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in Security engineering.
• A startup mindset: you’re scrappy, pragmatic, and move quickly to solve the most critical problems.
• Comfort writing and debugging backend application code.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and know how to ruthlessly prioritize.
• Can balance security rigor with speed, especially in fast-moving environments.
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical partners.
• Experience building or scaling security programs, either at a startup or in an embedded role.

Nice to Have

• Time spent in fast-paced startup environments where you’ve built security practices from the ground up.
• Ruby is a plus, but not required.
• Excitement about the potential of crypto and stablecoins to power global financial infrastructure (you don’t need deep prior knowledge—just curiosity and openness to learn).

Team & Environment

Bridge is Stripe’s fintech innovation hub focused on building a modern, stablecoin-powered cross-border payments network. We operate like a startup within Stripe: fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and product-obsessed, but with the backing of one of the most trusted names in fintech.