Backend Engineer, Ai Security

Stripe Treasury

Remote, United States
Remote
5+ years software development experience
Design medium to large projects independently
Collaborate across multiple engineering teams
Stripe is seeking a Backend Engineer for their AI Security team, a foundational role focused on building security infrastructure for AI applications. The ideal candidate should have significant software development experience and a collaborative mindset, with a strong emphasis on security and infrastructure

Job Summary

  • This foundational role involves being the first engineer on a team responsible for creating security primitives to enable safe AI adoption at Stripe.
  • Engineers will build a security tooling layer that sits in the inference path to provide detection and protection against AI-specific threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks.
  • The team partners with other engineering groups to ensure Stripe's AI infrastructure and products are built securely while maintaining high engineering standards.

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Stripe is seeking a Backend Engineer for their AI Security team, a foundational role focused on building security infrastructure for AI applications. The ideal candidate should have significant software development experience and a collaborative mindset, with a strong emphasis on security and infrastructure.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 5+ years software development experience
  • Design medium to large projects independently
  • Collaborate across multiple engineering teams
  • Write high quality code in major language
  • Drive next steps in ambiguous environments

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with reliable infrastructure systems
  • Background in security engineering
  • Experience building AI agents or LLM systems
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and priority changes
  • Creative reasoning in complex problem domains

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Experience designing and developing medium to large projects
  • Ability to work collaboratively across multiple engineering teams

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