Backend Engineer, AI Security

Job Title: Backend Engineer, AI Security

We're looking for a skilled Backend Engineer to join our AI Security team. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in building and maintaining our AI infrastructure, ensuring it is secure and reliable.

Responsibilities:

• Build security frameworks integrated with our core AI infrastructure
• Design and implement defenses against AI-specific threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure Stripe's AI infrastructure and products are built securely
• Support other engineering teams in integrating security primitives
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes

Requirements:

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience independently designing and developing medium to large projects
• Experience working collaboratively across multiple engineering teams
• Experience writing high-quality code in a major programming language
• Ability to drive clear next steps when working in an ambiguous environment
• Ability to think creatively and reason clearly in a complex problem domain

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining reliable infrastructure systems
• Experience in security engineering
• Experience building AI agents or LLM-based systems

In-office Expectations:

• Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users.

Pay and Benefits:

• The annual US base salary range for this role is $156,800 - $285,600.
• Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.