Staff Data Scientist, Security

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

You’ll be joining the data science team at Stripe responsible for our overall infrastructure, with a special focus on Stripe’s security. Projects include, but are not limited to:

Leverage internal telemetry and logs to understand and design secure and safe access controls to sensitive data;

Develop methods to model, quantify, and ultimately de-risk security-related incidents on Stripe data, assets, and networks;

Collaborate across the company with engineering, PMs, and others to better understand, measure, and ultimately detect various malicious attack vectors.

You will act as a key strategic data partner to the Security organization at Stripe, and help craft, guide, and drive the strategy and tactics needed to help ensure Stripe keeps and maintains the highest level of safety and security for critical business assets and customer data.

What you'll do

Responsibilities

Provide senior technical direction to data teams on horizontal technical areas, including detection, modeling, metrics, observability, etc. Assume hands-on leadership, especially when helping teams resolve complex problems through iterative execution.

Identify broad company problems and opportunities that can be tackled through data science

. Work with relevant teams to design and build the quantitative outputs and artifacts that deliver outsized value to our users and our business.

Provide data-driven guidance to cross-functional partners on strategy for tracking and protect