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

The Privacy and Data Protection team is dedicated to ensuring that users' data is handled responsibly and securely, thereby fostering trust in Stripe's Privacy and Security practices. Stripe will succeed at our mission of increasing the GDP of the internet only if we prove ourselves worthy of our users’ trust. We build application & infrastructure solutions into Stripe’s Data Platform so that data protection guarantees are always on by default.  We do this by targeting application & infrastructure layer protections to abstract complexity, and provide intuitive, out-of-the box solutions for common concerns, enabling teams to integrate quickly and get on with their work. This team will work closely with various engineering and cross-functional teams across Stripe to achieve our objectives.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for an engineer who is passionate about building engineering solutions for privacy and security governance of large scale data. This role is critical for Stripe business and for the future of internet-enabled commerce.

Responsibilities Design and build services and frameworks and tooling used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams to provide privacy and security controls on our data. Build solutions that can be either centrally applied or used by other teams to improve the privacy and security postures of their datasets. Create new ways for Stripe to safely interact with data as new opportunities arise, for example the safe usage of agentic AI. Collaborate with our users and cross-functional partners to improve on these systems.
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 2-5 years of professional hands-on software development experience Has a curious and learning mindset, regardless of level or experience Has empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration Works well cross-functionally and cross-team; and your co-workers at all levels trust you Drives clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership Thinks creatively and holistically when solving problems Prefers simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable High standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar Preferred qualifications Privacy, security, data governance and/or data engineering experience is a plus, not a requirement Experience with Go, Java or Ruby