Security Engineer, Bridge

Posted:
4/2/2026, 6:20:00 AM

Location(s):
Washington, United States ⋅ New York, New York, United States ⋅ Seattle, Washington, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States ⋅ New York, United States ⋅ California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
On-site

Pay:
$334k–$469k/yr

Who we are

About Bridge

Bridge is Stripe’s fintech innovation hub focused on building a modern, stablecoin-powered cross-border payments network. We operate like a startup within Stripe: fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and product-obsessed, but with the backing of one of the most trusted names in fintech.

We’re hiring a Security Engineer to build and scale Bridge’s security foundation. This is a rare opportunity to design a security program from the ground up, while also leveraging the infrastructure, best practices, and tooling of one of the most mature security organizations in the industry.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

  • Design, and implement Bridge’s security roadmap from first principles to production.
  • Identify and tackle Bridge’s most important security risks quickly and pragmatically.
  • Integrate with Stripe’s infrastructure where it makes sense, and find custom solutions where it doesn’t.
  • Lead threat modeling and hardening efforts for Bridge’s money movement systems in collaboration with crypto and infra teams.
  • Build key security capabilities (monitoring, secrets management, incident response, access controls, CI/CD hardening, etc).
  • Reinforce engineering best practices around secure development and infrastructure.
  • Ensure Bridge meets compliance and audit expectations as we scale to more regulated markets.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and Stripe’s security org to move fast without compromising safety.

About you

You might be a good fit if you:

  • Have 8+ years of experience in Security engineering, ideally with time spent in fast-paced startup environments where you’ve built security practices from the ground up.
  • Have a startup mindset: you’re scrappy, pragmatic, and move quickly to solve the most critical problems.
  • Are comfortable writing and debugging backend application code (Ruby is a plus, but not required).
  • Thrive in ambiguity and know how to ruthlessly prioritize.
  • Can balance security rigor with speed, especially in fast-moving environments.
  • Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical partners.
  • Have experience building or scaling security programs, either at a startup or in an embedded role.
  • Are excited about the potential of crypto and stablecoins to power global financial infrastructure (you don’t need deep prior knowledge—just curiosity and openness to learn).

Stripe

Website: https://stripe.com/

Headquarter Location: South San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 1001-5000

Year Founded: 2010

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Grant

Industries: Finance ⋅ FinTech ⋅ Mobile Payments ⋅ SaaS

Visa Sponsorship: Sponsors work visas