4 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, and deploy technical controls across API, protocol, and product boundaries to address high-impact abuse vectors.
- Translate attacker evidence and FT3 threat research into precise technical requirements and control specifications.
- Co-design resilient controls across payments, onboarding, identity, and Connect surfaces with cross-functional teams.
- Run experiments and A/B tests to measure risk reduction against legitimate-user conversion impact.
- Build regression test suites and automated attack simulations to prevent mitigated abuse vectors from recurring.
- Define handoff criteria, documentation, timelines, and target dates for transferring successful controls to product engineering teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, application security, or anti-abuse engineering in a high-scale production environment.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, software engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Production programming proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or a similar language, along with advanced SQL skills.
- Experience using frontier AI models for software development, learning, and analysis.
- Hands-on experience building API safeguards, rate-limiting frameworks, authentication or authorization checks, or input-validation controls.
- Experience writing unit, integration, and regression tests for critical backend software using automated testing frameworks.
- Preferred qualifications include A/B testing, threat modeling, secure systems architecture, FT3 or MITRE ATT&CK, adversary kill-chain analysis, financial fraud vectors, large-scale data-processing platforms, and feature incubation or ownership transitions.
About Stripe
Stripe builds financial infrastructure for internet businesses, offering APIs and tools for online and in‑person payments, subscriptions, marketplaces/payouts, fraud prevention, identity, tax, issuing, and treasury. It monetizes through per‑transaction fees and SaaS pricing for advanced products. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Stripe is privately held and serves companies from startups to large enterprises worldwide.