Software Engineer, Core Technology
Stripe · Bangalore · 8127 Core Infrastructure · listed March 3, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
7+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
7
Length
620 words
In the posting’s own words
Team Matching—exact team matching for one of the sub-teams within one of these organizations will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different organizations based on your experience, location, etc.
What it asks for · 7
- 7+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
- Ability to write well-factored algorithms and experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms
- Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems
- Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand engineers learn new languages on the job, so our interview process is language agnostic)
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
- Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users
Also a plus
- Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems
- Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production
What the job covers
- Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
- Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe
- Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems2×
- Microservices
Security & compliance
- Security3×
Data
- Data pipelines
Models & research
- Machine learning
Product & design
- Roadmap
Words the posting leans on
- experience6×
- infrastructure6×
- systems6×
- building5×
- platform5×
- build4×
- engineers4×
- requirements4×
- technologies4×
- users4×
- developer3×
- external3×
- internal3×
- language3×
- meet3×
- productivity3×
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