4 hours ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
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 abuse requirements and control specifications.
- Collaborate across Stripe to design secure controls for payments, onboarding, identity, and Connect surfaces.
- 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 recurring abuse vectors.
- Define incubation handoff criteria, operational documentation, timelines, and target dates for transferring controls to product 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.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or a similar production programming 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.
- Preferred experience includes A/B testing, threat modeling, secure systems architecture, FT3 or MITRE ATT&CK, adversary kill-chain analysis, financial fraud vectors, and large-scale data-processing platforms such as Databricks, Trino, or PySpark.
- Experience incubating software features, defining operational handoffs, and transferring ownership to partner engineering teams is preferred.
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.