Who we are

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

Stripe will succeed at our mission of increasing the GDP of the internet only if we continue to prove ourselves worthy of our users’ trust. Privileged Access Tooling is a newly formed security engineering team tasked with reducing sensitive access across Stripe’s infrastructure by providing intuitive and robust tools, interfaces and controls limiting sensitive access while empowering users to complete their work easily. The team will own their work end-to-end, collaborating closely with users and stakeholders to deliver state of the art solutions and increase Stripe’s security posture.  

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers and other leaders at Stripe to design and build solutions that will advance Stripe’s infrastructure security beyond state of the art
  
• Empower the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and ease-of-use
  
• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe
  
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers and develop new skills
  
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team
  
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team
  
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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

• Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
  
• 2+ years of engineering management experience
  
• 8+ years of software development experience in a high-stakes production environment
  
• The ability to work well cross-functionally, and the ability to think rigorously and make hard decisions and tradeoffs
  
• The desire to encourage a healthy, inclusive work environment that’s both supportive and challenging
  
• Successfully recruited and built great teams
  
• A clear and persuasive approach in writing and in person
  

Preferred qualifications

• Proficiency in Go
  
• Security experience is a plus but not at all a requirement