Join Stripe's Data Privacy Technologies team to design and build systems that protect user data at scale.
AI in the day-to-day
We leverage applied AI/ML to innovate in data classification and pseudonymization techniques.
Requirements
- Experience
- 2–5 years
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Software Engineer for Data Privacy Technologies at Stripe focuses on designing and maintaining core infrastructure that safeguards user data across the company's engineering teams. Key skills include experience with scalable systems and a strong understanding of privacy and security principles, alongside a collaborative mindset. This position is ideal for someone with a few years of software engineering experience who thrives in complex environments and is eager to tackle ambiguous challenges. The team plays a crucial role in ensuring user trust, making impactful decisions that balance privacy, security, and productivity.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 7 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Stripe's career page.
- Stripe has 567 other open roles including Account Executive, Enterprise Platforms, Tier 2 Grower, Account Executive, Product Sales - Money Management ASEAN, Account Executive, Product Sales- Money Management ANZ.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- 2–5 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer, Data Privacy Technologies role.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Stripe targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer, Data Privacy Technologies 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
Stripe will succeed at our mission of increasing the GDP of the internet only if we prove ourselves worthy of our users’ trust. The Data Privacy Technologies team contributes to this by building systems that allow Stripe to deeply reason about and protect user data, at scale. As an engineering team, we leverage system design and applied AI/ML to innovate in data classification and pseudonymization techniques such as tokenization, redaction, filtering, and masking.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate core infrastructure used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams, for example to automatically annotate and obfuscate sensitive data
- Make impactful decisions at the intersection of privacy, security and productivity — the edge cases, failure modes and tradeoffs
- Collaborate closely with legal, product, compliance, operations and other engineering teams to embed best practices for data protection into how products and infrastructure are built
- Improve engineering standards and processes
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 software engineering experience
- Experience building and owning highly available, scalable and performant systems in a high-stakes production environment
- Empathy, excellent communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
- A learning mindset
- The ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex, fast-changing environment
- The ability to drive next steps when encountering ambiguous problems without clear ownership
Preferred qualifications
- Data platform/systems experience
- Applied AI/ML experience
- Privacy or security experience