Senior Software Engineer
Stripe · South San Francisco, CA · Global Operations · listed September 2, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Senior
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$221,187 – $285,600
Requirements listed
7
Length
437 words
In the posting’s own words
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. CA50
What it asks for · 7
- Software development including in Cloud systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI;
- Creating technical architecture and design;
- Building an operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
- Developing software using Java and GO;
- Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
- Breaking down large, complex systems, identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities, and making data drive cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions; and
- Utilizing systems and tools including: Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet.
What the job covers
- Design, build, and maintain high-scale, distributed systems to work with the company.
- Work within a team to build the core networking solutions, which include load balancing, mTLS networking, fleet health & observability used by product teams to build and operate microservices supporting the company’s business.
- Build a great customer experience for internal company teams using Infra and play a key role in enabling the company’s Infra to power all of the company’s products globally and at scale.
- Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity, and cost.
- Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement and resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale.
- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture.
- Set clear goals and provide regular feedback on team member performance.
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems2×
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Microservices
- Observability
Languages
- Java
Product & design
- Roadmap
Words the posting leans on
- design5×
- software5×
- systems5×
- build4×
- experience4×
- solutions3×
- tools3×
- computer science2×
- contribute2×
- cost2×
- degree foreign2×
- developing2×
- distributed systems2×
- experience software2×
- field plus2×
- foreign equivalent2×
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