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Stripe

Software Engineer

Stripe
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hybrid senior full-time $156,800 - $235,200/yr South San Francisco, CA

First indexed 23 Oct 2026

Description

Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling process, and culture. You will scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity, and cost. You will innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute to improvements in infrastructure, resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale. You will uphold the company’s high engineering standards and improve the overall codebase and processes.

To be successful in this role, you must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus two (2) years of work experience in software development. You must also have two (2) years of experience in each of the following:

  • 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;
  • 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.

The salary range for this role is $156,800 - $235,200 per year. Additional benefits may include equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses, 401(k) plan, medical, dental, and vision benefits, and wellness stipends. This is a full-time role with 40 hours per week, and 50% telecommuting is permitted.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stripe/jobs/8314283