Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms
About the team The Product Security Data Platforms team is a newly established engineering team within Stripe Security. Our mission is to build the foundational infrastructure that provides our users with unprecedented visibility into the security posture of their Stripe integration.
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Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms at Stripe in Seattle. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the team The Product Security Data Platforms team is a newly established engineering team within Stripe Security. Our mission is to build the foundational infrastructure that provides our users with unprecedented visibility into the security posture of their Stripe integration.
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- 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.
- Engineering 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 will set the bar for code quality, system resilience, and operational maturity for a product that requires 99.99%+ availability.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Stripe’s core platform and data teams to leverage global infrastructure while ensuring security data remains isolated and protected.
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- 8+ years of professional software development experience , with a history of shipping and maintaining complex, large-scale systems.
- Expertise in Data Engineering & Distributed Systems: 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 mission-critical services with high availability requirements, on-call rotation, and a strong focus on observability and debugging.
- Communication & Collaboration: Excellent technical writing skills for drafting design documents and the ability to mentor other engineers while collaborating with non-technical stakeholders.
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