Software Engineer, Security Analytics Infrastructure

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 The Product Security Data Platforms team is a newly established engineering team within Stripe Security. Our mission is to build the foundational infrastructure that provides our users with unprecedented visibility into the security posture of their Stripe integration. While Stripe is renowned for industry-leading payment protection, we are expanding our focus to provide a comprehensive security telemetry platform that helps businesses protect their entire digital ecosystem on Stripe. You'll contribute to a large-scale customer-facing security data pipeline and presentation layer. Much like modern security observability platforms and data lakes that have transformed cloud infrastructure, we're building an API-first service that transforms massive streams of behavioral data into actionable security intelligence. This team operates at the intersection of high-throughput data engineering and cybersecurity, creating the systems that will allow the world's most sophisticated companies to monitor, detect, and respond to threats in real time. WHAT YOU’LL DO As a Software Engineer on this founding team, you'll contribute to the technical design and implementation of our core security data pipelines. You'll help build the systems that capture security signals, process them at scale, and deliver them to users through robust, developer-friendly interfaces. This is an opportunity to grow quickly, make a meaningful impact from day one, and help shape a product that directly improves security outcomes for businesses worldwide. RESPONSIBILITIES * Build scalable foundations. Implement components of a highly available, low-latency pipeline capable of processing and augmenting millions of events per second into structured security telemetry * Build API-first products. Develop core services and streaming APIs that enable enterprise customers to ingest security signals into their internal security operations centers and analytics tools * Engineer security signals. Partner with security researchers and threat detection experts to build logic that identifies anomalous behavior and surfaces high-fidelity security insights * Contribute to technical design. Participate in discussions on data modeling, storage strategies, and the abstraction layers that will support future security products * Raise the bar for quality. Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to a culture of code quality, system resilience, and operational maturity for a product that requires 99.99%+ availability * Collaborate cross-functionally. Work closely with Stripe's core platform and data teams to leverage global infrastructure while ensuring security data remains isolated and protected 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+ years of professional software development experience, with a history of shipping and maintaining complex, large-scale systems * Expertise in data engineering and distributed systems, with deep experience building and operating high-throughput data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark, or similar streaming technologies) * Strong programming fundamentals, significant experience in languages like Java, C++, or Rust * Operational mindset, experience maintaining business-critical services with high availability requirements, on-call rotation, and a strong focus on observability and debugging * Communication and collaboration skills, excellent technical writing skills for drafting design documents and the ability to mentor other engineers while collaborating with non-technical stakeholders PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience with or interest in security analytics, threat detection systems, or observability platforms * Experience building infrastructure or services used by other engineers or external developers * Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure tools such as AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform * Product intuition and a desire to work on "0-to-1" initiatives where you help define requirements and user experience alongside engineering * Front-end or full-stack experience, particularly with React or TypeScript

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. ABOUT OKTA Okta is an enterprise grade identity management service, built from the ground up in the cloud and delivered with an unwavering focus on customer success. With Okta you can manage access across any application, person, or device. Whether the people are employees, partners, or customers, or the applications are in the cloud, on premises, or on a mobile device, Okta helps you become more secure, make people more productive, and maintain compliance. The Okta service provides directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates deeply with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems. ABOUT THE TEAM The Data Platform team is responsible for the foundational data services, systems, and data products for Okta that benefit our users. Today, the Data Platform team solves challenges and enables: * Streaming analytics  * Interactive end-user reporting  * Data and ML platform for Okta to scale * Telemetry of our products and data Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible. We encourage ownership. We expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have significant equity in a company. Okta is about to change the cloud computing landscape forever.  ABOUT THE POSITION This is an opportunity for experienced Software Engineers to join our fast growing Data Platform organization that is passionate about scaling high volume, low-latency, distributed data-platform services & data products. In this role, you will get to work with engineers throughout the organization to build foundational infrastructure that allows Okta to scale for years to come. As a member of the Data Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying the systems that power our data analytics and ML. Our analytics infrastructure stack sits on top of many modern technologies, including Kinesis, Flink, ElasticSearch, and Snowflake.  We are looking for experienced Software Engineers who can help design and own the building, deploying and optimizing the streaming infrastructure. This project has a directive from engineering leadership to make OKTA a leader in the use of data and machine learning to improve end-user security and to expand that core-competency across the rest of engineering. You will have a sizable impact on the direction, design & implementation of the solutions to these problems.   JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: * Design, implement and own data-intensive, high-performance, scalable platform components * Work with engineering teams, architects and cross functional partners on the development of projects, design, and implementation * Conduct and participate in design reviews, code reviews, analysis, and performance tuning * Coach and mentor engineers to help scale up the engineering organization * Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack    REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:  * 8+ years of experience in object-oriented language, preferably Java  * Hands-on experience using a cloud-based distributed computing technologies including * Messaging systems such as Kinesis, Kafka  * Data processing systems like Flink, Spark, Beam * Storage & Compute systems such as Snowflake, Hadoop * Coordinators and schedulers like the ones in Kubernetes, Hadoop, Mesos * Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable distributed systems * Excellent grasp of software engineering principles * Solid understanding of multithreading, garbage collection and memory management * Experience with reliability engineering specifically in areas such as data quality, data observability and incident management NICE TO HAVE * Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure * Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, high volume services * Hands-on experience in developing Data Integration applications for large scale (petabyte scale) environments with experience in both batch and online systems. * Contributed to the development of distributed systems or used one or more at high volume or criticality such as Kafka or Hadoop * Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack #LI-Hybrid #P22344 The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. 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