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About the Role

The User Auth Experience (UAX) team at Stripe is responsible for world-class authentication and account security, ensuring systems are secure by default, frictionless for legitimate users, and resilient against evolving threats. This role involves setting technical direction, driving architecture decisions, and leading initiatives that span multiple organizations, operating at the intersection of security and product.

Responsibilities

Own the technical architecture for a major area of the team's charter
Design and ship systems that serve multiple Stripe surfaces—building generalized primitives, not point solutions
Drive cross-org technical alignment on shared security infrastructure
Make effective tradeoffs that consider security posture, user friction, and sustainable technical foundations
Mentor and grow engineers on the team
Raise the bar for design rigor, operational excellence, and code quality
Shape the team's multi-year roadmap through technical foresight and principled prioritization

Requirements

12+ years of experience in full-time software development roles
Experience as a technical lead by guiding your team, influencing its roadmap, and overseeing complex projects spanning multiple teams
Experience in both frontend and backend, with strong ability to work as a generalist across the stack
Thrive in a collaborative environment with other teams to identify high-impact ways of solving problems
Excellent oral and written communication
You strive for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale well
Deep expertise in authentication and authorization systems—SSO, MFA, passkeys and WebAuthn, OAuth, session management, or API key security
Experience building risk-based or adaptive security systems (anomaly detection, step-up auth, fraud prevention)
Strong understanding of IAM concepts, including RBAC, identity governance, SCIM, delegated auth, or approval workflows
Experience defining auth or security primitives for programmatic consumers (APIs, agents, and SDKs)—not just human-facing UI
Experience building scalable, resilient, and observable systems while understanding UX best practices for the frontend
You put yourself in the shoes of your users to understand their needs and fit that into the bigger picture
You stitch together many different services and processes, even if you haven't worked with them before
Experience building software for fellow developers

Skills

Frontend
Backend
Generalist across the stack
Authentication
Authorization
SSO
MFA
Passkeys
WebAuthn
OAuth
Session management
API key security
Risk-based security systems
Adaptive security systems
Anomaly detection
Step-up auth
Fraud prevention
IAM concepts
RBAC
Identity governance
SCIM
Delegated auth
Approval workflows
Auth primitives
Security primitives
Programmatic consumers
APIs
Agents
SDKs
Scalable systems
Resilient systems
Observable systems
UX best practices
Software development

Experience Level

12+ years of experience in full-time software development roles
Experience as a technical lead

About the Company

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.