Cloud Security Engineer

Stripe

Cloud Security Engineer designing and developing security infrastructure for Stripe, ensuring user data privacy and security controls.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeRemote • California, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Designing and implementing controls that support security invariants and enforce our security principles while providing a surprisingly great user experience
Providing a migration path for newly acquired companies onto the Stripe Secure Platform, embedding with their engineers and biasing for action
CI tooling for platform-related configuration: IAM roles, SCPs, and associated components
Guardrails and security controls for both commonly used and newer cloud technologies
Expanding our cloud identity infrastructure to provide paved paths for AI and agentic access
Automation tooling for continually driving down permissions and access across our cloud services

Requirements

What you’ll need

Design, build, and operate the core security infrastructure used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams in close collaboration with other stakeholders and our users
Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter
Contribute to team learning by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Design and build durable solutions that will advance Stripe’s security beyond the state of the art.
Help expand Stripe’s cloud footprint on top of secure, paved roads and guardrails
Optimize for security controls that have delightful user experiences
Partner closely with infrastructure and engineering teams building integrations with our cloud infrastructure or adopting new cloud managed services
Make impactful decisions about systems and security — their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles
Use data to determine appropriate baselines against which to measure security
Define infrastructure that reliably feeds signals to threat teams
Evaluate and prototype new security tools and practices

Benefits

Comp & perks

Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
The ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership
High standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar
Software engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment
A knack for considering how systems can fail and how to fix them
An ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment
Experience with security on one or more of AWS, Azure, or GCP

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Hard Skills & Tools

security infrastructure designcloud identity infrastructureautomation toolingCI toolingsecurity controlspermissions managementcloud technologiesintegration with cloud servicesdata analysis for security baselinesprototyping security tools

Soft Skills

collaborationteam learningdecision makinguser experience optimizationengineering standards adherenceimpactful communicationproblem solvingprocess improvementstakeholder engagementbias for action