Software Engineer
Stripe · Seattle, WA · Global Operations · listed October 9, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Entry level
Experience asked
1–2 years
Where
Remote
Stated pay
$190,400 – $285,600
Requirements listed
13
Length
379 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. WA67
What it asks for · 13
- 2 years of experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and Terraform infrastructure automation;
- 2 years of experience with reliability, scalability, and distributed systems principles;
- 1 year of experience in Go and Ansible programming languages;
- 1 year of experience in Puppet host configuration;
- 1 year of experience in Ruby programming language;
- 1 year of experience in Python programming language;
- 1 year of experience in mentorship and leadership of junior software engineers;
- 1 year of experience performing 24/7 on call rotations to support high-availability software systems;
- 1 year of experience with monitoring and logging tools;
- 1 year of experience with computer network concepts;
- 1 year of experience in the knowledge of Linux operating system and subsystems;
- 1 year of experience with cloud and application security best practices; and
- 1 year of experience with PCI compliance monitoring, audit processes, and evidence collection.
What the job covers
- Conducting technical interviews;
- Creating software, tooling and distributed systems for automating and managing data center network hardware and compute stacks;
- Creating and operating shared infrastructure for Stripe’s Cardholder data environment;
- Deployment tooling;
- SOX compliance audit prep interviews, and remediations;
- PCI compliance audit prep, interviews, and remediations;
- Project management;
- Mentoring junior engineers;
- On-call responsibilities.
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems2×
- Ansible
- AWS
- Linux
- Terraform
Security & compliance
- Audit3×
- PCI2×
- Security
Ways of working
- Mentorship2×
- On-call
Languages
- Python
- Ruby
Operations & finance
- Project management
Words the posting leans on
- experience14×
- software5×
- systems4×
- infrastructure3×
- audit prep2×
- benefits2×
- cloud2×
- compliance audit2×
- computer2×
- creating2×
- data2×
- distributed systems2×
- engineers2×
- junior2×
- monitoring2×
- network2×
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