Technical Operations Engineer
Stripe · South San Francisco, CA · Global Operations · listed October 26, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked
2+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$137,000 – $205,600
Requirements listed
6
Length
352 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. CA75
What it asks for · 6
- Developer tools including git;
- Scripting and automation skills including Ruby and Python;
- Writing tooling and automation, including testing and idempotency;
- Observability tooling including metrics (Prometheus, Datadog), logging (LogScale), and distributed tracing (Honeycomb);
- Incident response, on-call rotations, runbooks, and postmortem processes; and
- Using SQL and relational databases including PostgreSQL or MySQL for operational tasks.
What the job covers
- Become a domain expert in Connect and Risk and Compliance areas of Connect.
- Handle inquiries from internal Stripes and external partners' technical teams with detailed investigation and sometimes code changes.
- Organize and direct complex technical changes as part of product releases and merchant onboarding and migrations.
- Identify and automate inefficient or unnecessary manual processes by making direct code changes, or coordinating more complex code changes across Stripe.
- Design alerting systems using existing tools to respond to incidents quickly, or prevent them altogether.
- Conduct data analysis to understand the impact of risk and compliance interventions on the users and surface future product opportunities.
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- Datadog
- Observability
- Prometheus
Languages
- Python
- Ruby
- SQL
Ways of working
- Git
- On-call
- Testing
Data
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
Words the posting leans on
- technical4×
- code changes3×
- automation2×
- complex2×
- compliance2×
- connect2×
- direct2×
- experience2×
- incident2×
- processes2×
- product2×
- risk2×
- systems2×
- tooling2×
- tools2×
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