Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Security engineering.
• Experience building or scaling security programs at a startup or in an embedded role.

Nice to haves

• Experience in fast-paced startup environments, building security practices from the ground up.
• Startup mindset—scrappy, pragmatic, and quick to solve the most critical problems.
• Comfort writing and debugging backend application code, with Ruby experience preferred.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to ruthlessly prioritize.
• Ability to balance security rigor with speed, especially in fast-moving environments.
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Interest in the potential of crypto and stablecoins to power global financial infrastructure.

What you'll be doing

• Design and implement the Bridge security roadmap from first principles to production.
• Identify and tackle the most important Bridge security risks quickly and pragmatically.
• Integrate with Stripe infrastructure where it makes sense, and find custom solutions where it doesn't.
• Lead threat modeling and hardening efforts for the Bridge money movement systems in collaboration with crypto and infra teams.
• Build key security capabilities, including monitoring, secrets management, incident response, access controls, and CI/CD hardening.
• 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 the Stripe security organization to move fast without compromising safety.