Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms

Stripe

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Work type
Remote
Location
New York, NYSeattle, WA
Salary
$158,800–$238,200 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $182k
This role $198k
$112k most similar roles pay here $252k

This role pays more than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $198k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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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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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Security Data Platforms team, you will serve as a founding member building foundational infrastructure for security telemetry. You will architect and implement high-availability, low-latency data pipelines to process millions of events per second into structured signals. Your daily work involves developing API-first services and streaming APIs that allow enterprise customers to ingest security data into their own operations centers. To succeed, you must possess expertise in distributed systems and data engineering using technologies like Kafka, Flink, or Spark, alongside proficiency in Java, C++, or Rust. You will lead technical roadmaps for data modeling and storage while ensuring high availability for critical services. The role addresses the challenge of transforming massive streams of behavioral data into actionable security intelligence to help businesses monitor and respond to threats in real time.

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What you'll do

  • Architect and implement high-availability pipelines to process millions of events per second into structured security telemetry.
  • Develop API-first services and streaming APIs for enterprise customers to ingest security signals into their internal tools.
  • Build logic to identify anomalous behavior and surface high-fidelity security insights in partnership with threat experts.
  • Lead the technical roadmap regarding data modeling, storage strategies, and abstraction layers for future products.
  • Ensure system resilience and operational maturity for services requiring 99.99%+ availability.
  • Design and maintain large-scale distributed systems using technologies like Kafka, Flink, or Spark.
  • Draft technical design documents and mentor other engineers on code quality and system architecture.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of professional software development experience shipping and maintaining complex, large-scale systems.
  • Expertise in data engineering and distributed systems, including high-throughput data pipelines using technologies like Kafka, Flink, or Spark.
  • Strong programming fundamentals with significant experience in Java, C++, or Rust.
  • Proven track record in system design leadership for robust, scalable architectures and leading cross-team initiatives.
  • Experience maintaining business-critical services with high availability requirements, on-call rotations, and a focus on observability.
  • Excellent technical writing skills and the ability to mentor engineers while collaborating with non-technical stakeholders.
  • Security domain knowledge, including experience building security analytics or threat detection systems (preferred).
  • Experience in platform engineering, cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform), or front-end technologies like React and TypeScript (preferred).

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