Blockchain Security Engineer, Bridge

About the role

Stripe is hiring a Security Engineer to build and scale the security foundation of its Bridge team, which is creating a payments platform built on stablecoins to simplify global money movement. You will design a security program from the ground up while drawing on the infrastructure, best practices and tooling of one of the most mature security organizations in the industry.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement the Bridge security roadmap from first principles to production.
• Identify and tackle the most important Bridge security risks quickly and pragmatically.
• Integrate with Stripe infrastructure where it makes sense, and find custom solutions where it does not.
• Lead threat modeling and hardening for the Bridge money movement systems with crypto and infrastructure teams.
• Build key security capabilities: monitoring, secrets management, incident response, access controls and CI/CD hardening.
• Reinforce engineering best practices around secure development and infrastructure.
• Ensure Bridge meets compliance and audit expectations as it scales to more regulated markets.
• Work cross-functionally with engineering, product and the Stripe security organization.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering.
• Experience building or scaling security programs at a startup or in an embedded role.
• Preferred: experience in fast-paced startup environments building security from the ground up, and a startup mindset.
• Ability to balance security rigor with speed, and to communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required skills

• Comfort writing and debugging backend application code; Ruby experience preferred.
• Interest in the potential of crypto and stablecoins to power global financial infrastructure.