The Security Engineer role at Stripe focuses on building and scaling the security foundation for the Bridge team, which is developing a new payments platform utilizing stablecoins. This position offers a unique opportunity to design a security program from scratch while leveraging established best practices from Stripe's mature security organization. The team is composed of experienced professionals from leading companies who are committed to enhancing global money movement through stablecoins. The role requires a blend of technical expertise and collaboration across various teams to ensure security without compromising speed.

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering.
• Experience building or scaling security programs at a startup or in an embedded role.
• Comfort writing and debugging backend application code, with Ruby experience preferred.
• Ability to balance security rigor with speed, especially in fast-moving environments.
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Design and implement the Bridge security roadmap from first principles to production.
• Identify and tackle the most important Bridge security risks quickly and pragmatically.
• Integrate with Stripe infrastructure where it makes sense, and find custom solutions where it doesn't.
• Lead threat modeling and hardening efforts for the Bridge money movement systems in collaboration with crypto and infra 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 the Stripe security organization to move fast without compromising safety.