Who we are

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 Analyst / Program Manager to build and scale Bridge’s security foundation. This is a rare opportunity to design the security governance, risk and compliance programs 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

• Design, and implement Bridge’s security governance, risk and compliance roadmaps from first principles to production.
• Identify and tackle Bridge’s most important security risks quickly and pragmatically.
• Adopt Stripe’s programs, controls and processes where it makes sense, and find custom approaches where it doesn’t.
• Lead risk assessment, control design and testing for all Security and Technology Oversight globally.
• 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 GRC, 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.
• You’re proficient with NIST CSF, OCC’s Cybersecurity Supervision Work Program and/or FFIEC IT Examination Handbook or other similar global frameworks. 
• Proven prior experience with regulatory audits from Global auditors across Security domains.
• 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).

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).

About Bridge

We’re creating an entirely new payments platform, built with stablecoins, to simplify global money movement. Bridge enables faster, cheaper payments and borderless access to dollars via stablecoins. Through our APIs, businesses can send and receive funds across borders faster / cheaper vs. SWIFT and other fiat-only rails. Our virtual accounts enable international consumers and businesses to easily access, store and spend US dollars. Our payouts infrastructure enables platforms to disburse USD to anyone globally. We believe many trillions of dollars will move and settle through stablecoin payment rails. Bridge is pulling this future forward. 

We have a small team of people who have previously built financial infrastructure at some of the world’s leading companies (Coinbase, Stripe, Square, Brex, Upstart, DoorDash, Airbnb) and each and every one of them chose Bridge because they fundamentally believe that stablecoins will be a critical piece of financial infrastructure that allows for the improvement of global money movement.

About the Role

As an early member of the Bridge engineering team, you will be given the autonomy to work on projects that are truly global in scale and aim to give customers access to products they've never had access to. Many of the use cases that we work on today didn't exist several months ago and that's because our team is dedicated to constant improvement for our partners and end users. Our Engineers have outsized ownership over projects so if you are looking for increased autonomy working on a completely greenfield opportunity, Bridge is the place for you.

Responsibilities

• Ship software to build out our suite of API products. We’re an engineering and API-first company, and you will learn first-hand and contribute towards building highly reliable, performant, and mission critical infrastructure serving thousands of developers across the globe.

• Take sole ownership of projects, oftentimes without the support of Product Management, and liaise both internally with teams like Legal/Compliance and externally with our partners and developers.

• Look for constant improvements to our product offerings with the explicit goal of improving the experience for our partners and end users.

• Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation.

• Improve engineering standards, tooling and processes for the team and our broader org.

Qualifications

• We are open to hiring engineers at various levels of seniority (SWE through Senior Staff) but at a minimum we are looking for somebody with 5+ years of experience.

• Experience building backend systems with SQL databases. Experience with frameworks such as Rails, Django, Express or equivalent is a bonus.

• An enlarged sense of ownership and the ability to lead and influence the design and direction of our products.

• An ability to thrive in a fast paced environment.

• A growth mindset and a constant curiosity and fearlessness to dive into the unknown.

• An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, but also be pragmatic about moving fast.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation.

• Past experience working on crypto or financial products a plus, and while not required, we do look for people who are very passionate about building in this space.

• Experience with building API products a plus, but not required.

• Experience working with blockchain or distributed systems a big plus

Who we are

About Bridge

We’re creating an entirely new payments platform, built with stablecoins, to simplify global money movement. Bridge enables faster, cheaper payments and borderless access to dollars via stablecoins. Through our APIs, businesses can send and receive funds across borders faster / cheaper vs. SWIFT and other fiat-only rails. Our virtual accounts enable international consumers and businesses to easily access, store and spend US dollars. Our payouts infrastructure enables platforms to disburse USD to anyone globally. We believe many trillions of dollars will move and settle through stablecoin payment rails. Bridge is pulling this future forward. 

We are building largely in San Francisco, and have a small team of people who have previously built financial infrastructure at some of the world’s leading companies (Coinbase, Stripe, Square, Brex, Upstart, DoorDash, Airbnb) and each and every one of them chose Bridge because they fundamentally believe that stablecoins will be a critical piece of financial infrastructure that allows for the improvement of global money movement.

About the Role

As one of the first blockchain engineers at Bridge, you will be given the autonomy to work on projects that are truly global in scale and aim to give customers access to products they've never had access to. Many of the use cases that we work on today didn't exist several months ago and that's because our team is dedicated to constant improvement for our partners and end users. Our Engineers have outsized ownership over projects so if you are looking for increased autonomy working on a completely greenfield opportunity, Bridge is the place for you.

Responsibilities

• Build out multi-chain hot wallet infrastructure to support increased reliability of our payments.

• Build smart contracts to increase hot wallet payment throughput.

• Build smart contract platform to issue custom stablecoins across multiple blockchains (EVM, Solana, Stellar, etc).

• Build smart contract monitoring systems to detect anomalous events (especially related to minting and burning).

• Design and develop blockchain-based applications and protocols to support stablecoin transactions and integrations.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.

• Implement and maintain smart contracts, ensuring security and efficiency.

• Perform thorough testing and debugging of blockchain applications.

• Optimize blockchain performance and scalability.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in blockchain technology and integrate relevant advancements into our solutions.

• Provide technical guidance and support to other team members.

• Contribute to the overall architecture and design of our blockchain systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• We are open to hiring engineers at various levels of seniority but in general we would look for somebody with 5+ years of experience.

• Strong proficiency in blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Solana or others.

• Experience with smart contract development using Solidity or other relevant languages.

• Deep understanding of cryptographic principles and blockchain protocols.

• Experience with decentralized finance (DeFi) and stablecoins is highly desirable.

• Knowledge of security best practices in blockchain development.

• An enlarged sense of ownership and the ability to lead and influence the design and direction of our products.

• An ability to thrive in a fast paced environment.

• A growth mindset and a constant curiosity and fearlessness to dive into the unknown.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation.