This role pays more than
94%
of similar roles. Most pay
$151,475–$208,800
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$246k
versus about
$180k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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.
As a Security Engineer at Privy, you will join the engineering team to protect a rapidly growing platform through hands-on investigation, operational ownership, and building production-quality code. You will be responsible for investigating anomalies, managing incident response, performing access reviews, and developing automation to reduce manual toil across application, infrastructure, and cloud security surfaces. The role requires building durable tools for alert enrichment and remediation while collaborating with specialists in cryptography and offensive security. To succeed, you must possess strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or Ruby to contribute directly to production fixes. You will navigate technical challenges involving blockchain abstractions, hardware enclaves, and multi-region low latency APIs. The work focuses on securing the infrastructure layer above wallets and integrating across various chains and third-party providers for developer-facing products.
What does a Security Engineer earn?
Median $185250 from 84 postings across 39 companies.
Investigate alerts, findings, and anomalies to identify root causes and drive remediation.
Participate in the security on-call rotation to respond to incidents and triage alerts.
Build and maintain production-quality tooling to automate manual tasks like alert enrichment and access reviews.
Lead methodical investigations into suspected security events or compromises while coordinating responses.
Engineer durable solutions to eliminate recurring operational toil and improve team scalability.
Partner with product teams to assess risks and make practical security trade-offs in design reviews.
Contribute across application, infrastructure, cloud, and product-security surfaces to build broad technical context.
What we're looking for
Experience as a security engineer, detection engineer, or similar hands-on role in a technically demanding environment.
Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or a similar language to build maintainable tooling and production fixes.
Experience investigating security signals, incidents, vulnerabilities, suspicious activity, or other ambiguous technical problems through to resolution.
Familiarity with security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, detection engineering, access reviews, or related workflows.
Strong understanding of web, browser, infrastructure, or cloud security across a broad range of problems.
Ability to communicate technical findings, risks, and recommended actions clearly to both internal stakeholders and external clients.
Ability to work independently with agency, exercise good judgment under pressure, and navigate ambiguity.
A self-directed approach to identifying gaps and proactively closing loops on projects.