Software Engineer
Stripe · South San Francisco, CA · Global Operations · listed October 22, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Not stated
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$156,800 – $235,200
Requirements listed
7
Length
376 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. CA64
What it asks for · 7
- Designing and deploying scalable infrastructure within major public cloud environments, specifically using AWS, Azure, or GCP;
- Cloud-native networking, compute instances (EC2), and storage solutions to support global, high-availability financial services;
- Developing software in Go and Ruby to build and maintain robust distributed systems and internal tooling;
- Writing clean, maintainable code to automate infrastructure management and develop the core services that power microservice architecture;
- Kubernetes and containerization technologies to manage large-scale server fleets and microservices;
- Designing orchestration strategies that ensure system reliability, efficient resource allocation and seamless deployments across a distributed environment; and
- Designing, building, and debugging high-scale distributed systems using open-source tools, analyzing complex system architectures, identifying performance bottlenecks, and implementing data-driven optimizations that improve latency, resiliency, and cost-performance ratios.
What the job covers
- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling process, and culture.
- Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions.
- Make appropriate tradeoffs between reliability throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity and cost.
- Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute toward improvement in infrastructure, resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale.
- Uphold the company’s high engineering standards and improve the overall codebase and processes.
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems2×
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
Languages
- Ruby
Product & design
- Roadmap
Words the posting leans on
- system4×
- designing3×
- infrastructure3×
- reliability3×
- software3×
- solutions3×
- architecture2×
- benefits2×
- contribute2×
- design2×
- distributed systems2×
- engineering2×
- experience2×
- implement2×
- improve2×
- latency resiliency2×
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