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Software Engineer

Stripe · South San Francisco, CA

Spotted 36m ago

Job details

Pay
$156,800 – $235,200 a year
Education
Bachelor's degree
Posted
Oct 22, 2026
Last confirmed open
Oct 23, 2026
Job description

About this role

About Stripe

Stripe, LLC. 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.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling process, and culture.
  • Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions.
  • Make appropriate tradeoffs between reliability throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity and cost.
  • Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute toward improvement in infrastructure, resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale.
  • Uphold the company’s high engineering standards and improve the overall codebase and processes.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus two (2) years of work experience in software development.

Must also have two (2) years of experience in each of the following:

  • Designing and deploying scalable infrastructure within major public cloud environments, specifically using AWS, Azure, or GCP;
  • Cloud-native networking, compute instances (EC2), and storage solutions to support global, high-availability financial services;
  • Developing software in Go and Ruby to build and maintain robust distributed systems and internal tooling;
  • Writing clean, maintainable code to automate infrastructure management and develop the core services that power microservice architecture;
  • Kubernetes and containerization technologies to manage large-scale server fleets and microservices;
  • Designing orchestration strategies that ensure system reliability, efficient resource allocation and seamless deployments across a distributed environment; and
  • Designing, building, and debugging high-scale distributed systems using open-source tools, analyzing complex system architectures, identifying performance bottlenecks, and implementing data-driven optimizations that improve latency, resiliency, and cost-performance ratios.

Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/yr.

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting permitted.

Multiple Positions Available.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. CA64

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