Privacy Eng & Data Protection Engineering Manager

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 Privacy and Data Protection team is dedicated to ensuring that users' data is handled responsibly and securely, thereby fostering trust in Stripe's Privacy and Security practices. Stripe will succeed at our mission of increasing the GDP of the internet only if we prove ourselves worthy of our users’ trust. We build application & infrastructure solutions into Stripe’s Data Platform so that data protection guarantees are always on by default. We do this by targeting application & infrastructure layer protections to abstract complexity, and provide intuitive, out-of-the box solutions for common concerns, enabling teams to integrate quickly and get on with their work. This team will work closely with various engineering and cross-functional teams across Stripe to achieve our objectives.

What you’ll do

As an Engineering Manager on the Privacy and Data Protection team at Stripe, you’ll lead the team responsible for building internal products and solutions that improve privacy and security governance of large scale data. This would include building security primitives in data infrastructure, libraries and frameworks for use by Stripe developers and internal tools to be used by Stripes. Your role heavily impacts Stripe's overall privacy and security posture, and as such, you'll work cross-functionally with Product owners, engineering teams across other organizations, Privacy Legal and Ops teams. Your work is not only impactful; it is critical to the long-term success of Stripe and our users. We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join us and lead Stripe engineers in building trustworthy financial infrastructure for the internet.

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.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve authorization solutions for data platform infrastructure.
• Instrument and measure access policies and build solutions to drive least privilege.
• Build internal tools for other Stripe teams to help manage their privacy requirements.
• Lead the team’s charter, partnering with tech leadership on system architecture and direction of internal data governance tools.
• Set clear goals and direction, and provide regular feedback on team members’ performance.
• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team.
• Technically dig in when the team needs support, including contributing to dashboard development, metric analysis, designing experiments, proof-of-concept work, exploring new tools to adopt, etc.

Minimum requirements

• 5+ years engineering management experience in a high-stakes production environment
• Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
• Significant experience in privacy or cybersecurity engineering.
• Familiarity with automated security and privacy tools and triage processes
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• High standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar

Preferred qualifications

• You’ve managed teams responsible for privacy or cybersecurity tools/products
• You are deeply technical, but prefer to lean on your leadership skills
• You’re comfortable planning in quarters, and also have experience planning in years
• You’re a talent magnet and technical leader, you know when to get your hands dirty and how to enable your team
• You are able to drive execution of high impact work while incorporating feedback from multiple sources.
• You are excited about collaborating with teammates across Stripe’s organization
• You’ve managed other technical leads
• An ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment

By joining our team, you will have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach, securely and responsibly.