Security Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Stripe's Internal Identity Team as an Infrastructure Engineer and play a pivotal role in enhancing the reliability, performance, and scalability of our identity and access management systems. You will design, implement, and maintain robust systems ensuring high availability and low latency. Prior security experience is a plus but not required; this role offers a chance to gain valuable security experience. The team collaborates to maintain 99.99% SLOs for critical infrastructure. You will monitor system performance, automate processes, conduct post-incident reviews, and improve operational processes. This is an opportunity to contribute to Stripe's security infrastructure while working with a collaborative team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field
• Proficiency with cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and orchestration tools (e.g. Puppet, Terraform)
• Experience with database optimization techniques and performance tuning
• Strong programming and scripting skills in languages such as Go and Python
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and LogScale
• Understanding of security best practices in the context of identity and access management systems
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain reliable and scalable infrastructure solutions for core identity and access management systems
• Collaborate with the team to ensure adherence to 99.99% Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for critical authentication and authorization infrastructure
• Monitor system performance and availability, proactively diagnosing and resolving operational issues as they arise
• Automate operational processes and improve infrastructure efficiency using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and Puppet
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement strategies to enhance system reliability and security
• Improve operational processes and promote best practices for site reliability engineering, fostering a culture of reliability within the team

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience with security is beneficial, but not required
• Familiarity with the Go programming language
• Experience managing infrastructure for identity and access management technologies and systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on data-driven decision-making