# Backend Engineer, AI Security

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: N/A
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $156,800 - $285,600
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stripe/jobs/7826765
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_f880ce83-024

## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- software development
- security frameworks
- AI infrastructure
- defenses against AI-specific threats
- collaboration with engineering teams
- high engineering standards
- codebase and processes

### Nice to have
- infrastructure systems
- security engineering
- AI agents or LLM-based systems