Software Engineer, Resource Automation
Stripe · South San Francisco, CA · Global Operations · listed October 22, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked
2+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$156,800 – $235,200
Requirements listed
5
Length
361 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. CA73
What it asks for · 5
- Backend development in Go, including building production services and writing automated tests;
- Distributed systems and microservices, and designing and implementing service APIs, including HTTP/REST or gRPC;
- Deploying and operating services using common cloud primitives computing, networking, and storage in cloud environments including AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI;
- Containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes and operating containerized services in production; and
- Observability and production troubleshooting, including using logs, metrics, and tracing to diagnose issues in Linux-based environments.
What the job covers
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain backend services that support internal infrastructure and microservice operations.
- Develop automation and tooling that streamlines resource provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows for internal engineering teams.
- Produce and review technical designs; evaluate tradeoffs across reliability, latency, throughput, resiliency, cost, and engineering velocity.
- Improve service operability by implementing monitoring/alerting, participating in on-call support as applicable, performing root-cause analysis, and addressing recurring failure modes.
- Uphold engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, testing practices, and iterative improvements to existing services and systems.
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- AWS
- Azure
- Distributed systems
- Docker
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Microservices
- Observability
Ways of working
- Code review
- On-call
- Technical writing
- Testing
Frameworks
- gRPC
- REST
Languages
- Go
Words the posting leans on
- services7×
- engineering6×
- production3×
- backend2×
- cloud2×
- computer2×
- design2×
- experience2×
- implementing2×
- internal2×
- microservice2×
- operating2×
- related2×
- review2×
- support2×
- systems2×
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