Cloud Security Engineer

Stripe

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$179,000–$268,400 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $170k
This role $224k
$100k most similar roles pay here $286k

This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$198,600 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $224k versus about $170k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology

Stripe currently has 173 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 171 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Cloud Security Engineer

As a Cloud Security Engineer on the Security team, you will design, build, and operate core security infrastructure used by all engineering teams. You will develop durable solutions to advance security beyond current standards, expand the cloud footprint using paved roads and guardrails, and create automation tooling to reduce permissions across cloud services. Your daily work involves collaborating with infrastructure teams to integrate new managed services, building CI tooling for IAM roles and SCPs, and creating migration paths for acquired companies onto a secure platform. You will utilize expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP, along with experience in Linux systems, Kubernetes, and container-based platforms. The role focuses on protecting sensitive financial data by implementing security controls that maintain high standards while ensuring seamless user experiences within complex, multi-cloud environments.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate core security infrastructure used by all of Stripe's engineering teams.
  • Develop durable solutions that advance security beyond the state of the art.
  • Expand Stripe's cloud footprint using secure paved roads and guardrails.
  • Optimize security controls to ensure a high-quality user experience for internal developers.
  • Partner with infrastructure teams to integrate new cloud managed services securely.
  • Define infrastructure that reliably feeds signals to threat detection teams.
  • Evaluate and prototype new security tools and practices.
  • Automate the reduction of permissions and access across all cloud services.

What we're looking for

  • Software engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment.
  • Experience with security on one or more of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience conducting threat modeling of software or infrastructure in cloud-native environments.
  • Experience with Linux systems, Kubernetes, and container-based platforms.
  • Prior usage of security monitoring tools such as CSPM or CNAAP.
  • Experience in a multi-cloud or complex cloud environment.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to drive clear next steps in ambiguous spaces.
  • Ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in complex environments.

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