# Cloud Security Engineer

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Seattle
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Cloud Security Engineer at Stripe, you will design and develop frameworks, systems, and solutions to ensure the security of Stripe's engineering infrastructure and protect user data.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and operate core security infrastructure used by all of Stripe's engineering teams.

- Collaborate with stakeholders and users to uphold high engineering standards.

- Contribute to team learning by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

- Develop durable solutions that advance Stripe's security beyond the current state.

- Expand Stripe's cloud footprint on top of secure, paved roads and guardrails.

- Optimize security controls for delightful user experiences.

- Partner with infrastructure and engineering teams to integrate with cloud infrastructure.

- Make impactful decisions about systems and security.

- Use data to determine security baselines.

- Define infrastructure that feeds signals to threat teams.

- Evaluate and prototype new security tools and practices.

## Projects

- Design and implement controls supporting security invariants and enforcing security principles.

- Provide migration paths for newly acquired companies onto the Stripe Secure Platform.

- Develop CI tooling for platform-related configuration.

- Implement guardrails and security controls for cloud technologies.

- Expand cloud identity infrastructure for AI and agentic access.

- Automate tooling for driving down permissions and access across cloud services.

## Requirements

- Empathy and strong communication skills.

- Learning mindset.

- Ability to drive clear next steps in ambiguous situations.

- High standards for code quality.

- Software engineering experience in high-stakes production environments.

- Experience with security on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Ability to consider system failures and fixes.

- Creative and holistic thinking about reducing risk.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with threat modeling in cloud-native environments.

- Experience with Linux systems, Kubernetes, and container-based platforms.

- Prior usage of security monitoring tools.

- Experience in multi-cloud or complex cloud environments.

## Skills

### Required
- cloud security
- software engineering
- security infrastructure
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Linux systems
- Kubernetes
- container-based platforms
- security monitoring tools

### Nice to have
- threat modeling
- cloud-native environments
- multi-cloud environments

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