Software Engineer
Stripe · Seattle, WA · Global Operations · listed October 2, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Not stated
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$156,800 – $235,200
Requirements listed
0
Length
334 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. WA61
What the job covers
- Design, build, and operate critical tier-0 backend services that must achieve 99.99%+ availability and handle security-sensitive data.
- Responsible for improving developer tooling.
- Design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure, participate in an on-call rotation, and collaborate with engineering teams across the company to plan and safely execute changes in production.
- Set up and operate infrastructure that participates in decentralized distributed systems, including creating deploy pipelines for artifacts.
- Build and harden custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) used to bootstrap EC2 instances, and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for these systems.
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
- Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe.
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems2×
- AWS
- Azure
- Linux
Languages
- Go
- Java
- Python
Product & design
- Roadmap
Security & compliance
- Security
Ways of working
- On-call
Words the posting leans on
- systems4×
- participate3×
- build2×
- critical2×
- design2×
- distributed systems2×
- engineering2×
- experience2×
- implement2×
- infrastructure2×
- operate2×
- production2×
- related2×
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