Responsibilities

• Be a leader of strategy and planning. Scope and lead large technical projects with wide impact across many teams that will advance Stripe’s infrastructure security beyond state of the art and securely expand our cloud footprint across clouds and services
• Designing and implementing guardrails and controls that support security invariants and enforce our security principles while providing a surprisingly great user experience for commonly used and newer cloud technologies
• CI tooling for platform-related configuration
• Ensuring all cloud infrastructure is defined in code and strict change management is in place

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
• A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
• 10+ years software engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment
• Experience writing high quality code in a major programming language and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar
• Ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership
• Ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in complex environments
• Deep experience with infrastructure on one, or more of, AWS, Azure, or GCP

Preferred qualifications

• Experience conducting threat modeling of software or infrastructure in cloud native environments
• Prior usage of security monitoring tools (e.g. CSPM, CNAAP)
• Experience in a multi-cloud, or complex, cloud environment