Security Infrastructure Engineer, Internal Identity

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Internal Identity Team's mission is to protect Stripe by providing primitives that enable secure user access at Stripe. We build tools that enable Stripe to enforce strong authentication and authorization controls, while providing a seamless user experience for Stripes to do their best work. Our team is responsible for core identity, authentication, and authorization systems critical to Stripe's security infrastructure.

What you’ll do

As an Infrastructure Engineer on the Internal Identity Team, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the reliability, performance, and scalability of Stripe’s identity and access management systems. You will design, implement, and maintain robust systems that serve as the backbone for access management across the organization, ensuring that our authorization systems are built with high availability and low latency at their core.

While prior experience with security is definitely a plus, it's not a requirement for this role. If you're eager to tackle new challenges and gain experience in security, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain reliable and scalable infrastructure solutions for core identity and access management systems.
• Collaborate with the team to ensure adherence to 99.99% Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for critical authentication and authorization infrastructure
• Monitor system performance and availability, proactively diagnosing and resolving operational issues as they arise.
• Automate operational processes and improve infrastructure efficiency using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and Puppet.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement strategies to enhance system reliability and security.
• Improve operational processes and promote best practices for site reliability engineering, fostering a culture of reliability within the team.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field.
• Proficiency with cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and orchestration tools (e.g. Puppet, Terraform).
• Experience with database optimization techniques and performance tuning.
• Strong programming and scripting skills in languages such as Go and Python.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and LogScale.
• Understanding of security best practices in the context of identity and access management systems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Previous experience with security is beneficial, but not required
• Familiarity with the Go programming language
• Experience managing infrastructure for identity and access management technologies and systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on data-driven decision-making.

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (typically, 35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

A remote location, in most cases, is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $187,500 - $281,300. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

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.

We look forward to hearing from you

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.