Stripe's Bridge team is hiring a Security Engineer to build and scale our foundational security program. Bridge is Stripe's fintech innovation hub focused on building a modern, stablecoin-powered cross-border payments network. In this role, you'll design a security program from first principles while leveraging Stripe's mature infrastructure and best practices, operating with the pace and autonomy of a startup within a trusted fintech leader.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement Bridge’s security roadmap from first principles to production.
- Identify and tackle Bridge’s most important security risks quickly and pragmatically.
- Integrate with Stripe’s infrastructure where it makes sense, and find custom solutions where it doesn’t.
- Lead threat modeling and hardening efforts for Bridge’s money movement systems in collaboration with crypto and infrastructure teams.
- Build key security capabilities, including monitoring, secrets management, incident response, access controls, and CI/CD hardening.
- Reinforce engineering best practices around secure development and infrastructure.
- Ensure Bridge meets compliance and audit expectations as we scale to more regulated markets.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and Stripe’s security organization to move fast without compromising safety.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in Security engineering.
- A startup mindset: you’re scrappy, pragmatic, and move quickly to solve the most critical problems.
- Comfort writing and debugging backend application code.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and know how to ruthlessly prioritize.
- Can balance security rigor with speed, especially in fast-moving environments.
- Clear communication across technical and non-technical partners.
- Experience building or scaling security programs, either at a startup or in an embedded role.
Nice to Have
- Time spent in fast-paced startup environments where you’ve built security practices from the ground up.
- Ruby is a plus, but not required.
- Excitement about the potential of crypto and stablecoins to power global financial infrastructure (you don’t need deep prior knowledge—just curiosity and openness to learn).
Team & Environment
Bridge is Stripe’s fintech innovation hub focused on building a modern, stablecoin-powered cross-border payments network. We operate like a startup within Stripe: fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and product-obsessed, but with the backing of one of the most trusted names in fintech.
