Is the Backend Engineer, AI Security role remote?

It's hybrid — Stripe expects some on-site time in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, or Remote (US/Canada).

What's the salary range?

Stripe lists $156,800–$285,600 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Backend Engineer, AI Security role.

Where is the role based?

Stripe is hiring for this position in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, or Remote (US/Canada).

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, infrastructure, security.

What seniority level is this role?

Stripe targets senior candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Backend Engineer, AI Security role at Stripe.

Backend Engineer, AI Security at Stripe

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Backend Engineer for AI Security at Stripe will focus on developing security frameworks and tools to protect AI infrastructure from specific threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks. The position requires strong software development skills, particularly in designing and implementing large-scale projects, along with a solid understanding of security engineering. This role is ideal for a seasoned engineer with a collaborative mindset, ready to navigate the fast-evolving landscape of AI security. As the first engineer on the team, this individual will play a crucial part in shaping foundational security practices.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Stripe's career page.
Stripe has 530 other open roles including Account Executive - Startups (Hunter), Manager, Customer Success, Customer Success Manager.
1697 active AI/ML roles on Joblaze right now.
275 active security roles on Joblaze right now.
89 active infrastructure roles on Joblaze right now.
Salary band is in line with the typical range for Security roles (median ~$168,000).

Quick facts

Is the Backend Engineer, AI Security role remote?: It's hybrid — Stripe expects some on-site time in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, or Remote (US/Canada).
What's the salary range?: Stripe lists $156,800–$285,600 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Backend Engineer, AI Security role.
Where is the role based?: Stripe is hiring for this position in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, or Remote (US/Canada).
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, infrastructure, security.
What seniority level is this role?: Stripe targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Backend Engineer, AI Security role at Stripe.

From the original posting

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

AI is moving fast and Stripe is moving fast to adopt it. But we need to make sure we do all of this safely, and for most of these tools enterprise-grade security isn't just available off the shelf. That's where the AI security team comes in - we are responsible for building and partnering to create the right security primitives to enable Stripe to move fast safely.

This is a team that will be working in the low level components of our AI stack so both infrastructure and security experience are pluses. This space is moving fast so being comfortable with ambiguity and changes in priority are a must.

This is a foundational role — you'd be the first engineer on the team.

What you’ll do

Engineers on this team will do a mixture of partnering and advising with teams building AI infrastructure and products, and building security infrastructure primitives for AI.

One of our major focuses will be building a security tooling layer that sits in the inference path, providing detection and protection against AI specific threats like prompt injection, jailbreaks, and tool misuse.

Responsibilities

Build security frameworks integrated with our core AI infrastructure
Design and implement defenses against AI specific threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks
Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure Stripe's AI infrastructure and products are built securely
Support other engineering teams in integrating security primitives
Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes
Design and build systems that help define the state of the art for AI security

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 software development experience
Experience independently designing and developing medium to large projects
Experience working collaboratively across multiple engineering teams
Experience writing high quality code in a major programming language
Ability to drive clear next steps when working in an ambiguous environment
Ability to think creatively and reason clearly in a complex problem domain

Preferred qualifications

Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining reliable infrastructure systems
Experience in security engineering
Experience building AI agents or LLM-based systems