Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Stripe · Seattle, San Francisco · 8127 Core Infrastructure · listed October 2, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Staff
Experience asked
15+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
12
Length
553 words
In the posting’s own words
The Infrastructure team at Stripe owns core components used by all product teams to build micro-services which support our business. This includes defining and driving the vision necessary to achieve best of breed scale and availability. Some of the technologies that we work with include Linux OS, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, and AWS networking components. We continuously invest in building new distributed services and scaling existing technologies while working with various teams to meet their current and future needs.
What it asks for · 12
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field
- 15+ years of professional experience in a software development or devops automation role
- Networking experience (development or system administration) over a number of years
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience leading projects on a cross-team or company-wide scale
- A strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure services
- Experience optimising the reliability and security of distributed systems
- Experience with scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime
- Experience mentoring engineers at various stages in their careers
- Experience using one of the major cloud providers - AWS/Azure/OCI/Google
- Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems
- Experience with ops culture and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards
What the job covers
- Design, plan, build, and maintain container infrastructure used by all Stripe service teams
- Lead technical conversations and decision making with other infrastructure and backend teams
- Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritisation
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
- Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services
- Identify the shared compute needs across Stripe, understand their specific requirements and prioritise solutions
Degree language
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- AWS3×
- Distributed systems2×
- Kubernetes2×
- Linux2×
- Azure
- Observability
Product & design
- Roadmap
Security & compliance
- Security
Ways of working
- Mentorship
Words the posting leans on
- infrastructure11×
- experience10×
- scale6×
- requirements5×
- services5×
- business4×
- distributed4×
- engineer4×
- systems4×
- achieve3×
- build3×
- components3×
- compute3×
- meet3×
- networking3×
- scaling3×
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