Stripe

Stripe

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Senior Software Engineer

Posted Sep 3, 2026

Role at a glance

Job function
Software Engineering & IT Software Engineering
Salary
$221.2K – $285.6K/yr
Location
South San Francisco, California, United States US-PERM, California, United States
Work arrangement
Remote
Employment
Full-time
Education
Bachelor's, Master's

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Role Summary

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This role designs and operates high-scale distributed systems for Stripe's internal infrastructure. The work focuses on core networking solutions, including load balancing, mTLS networking, fleet health, and observability, enabling product teams to build and operate microservices globally.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and maintain high-scale distributed systems.
  • Build core networking solutions including load balancing, mTLS networking, fleet health, and observability.
  • Build internal customer experiences for company teams using infrastructure.
  • Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions while balancing reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering...
  • Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture.
  • Set clear goals and provide regular feedback on team member performance.

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Qualifications

Three years of experience in cloud systems including AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI; technical architecture and design; developer infrastructure and tools; Java and Go; distributed systems built with open source tools; systems optimization and cost-performance tradeoffs; and Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet.

Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field
  • Three years of experience in software development including cloud systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI
  • Three years of experience creating technical architecture and design
  • Three years of experience building operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers
  • Three years of experience developing software using Java and Go
  • Three years of experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
  • Three years of experience breaking down complex systems and making data-driven cost-performance tradeoffs
  • Three years of experience utilizing Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet

Original job description

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Who we are

About Stripe 

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.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain high-scale, distributed systems to work with the company. 
  • Work within a team to build the core networking solutions, which include load balancing, mTLS networking, fleet health & observability used by product teams to build and operate microservices supporting the company’s business. 
  • Build a great customer experience for internal company teams using Infra and play a key role in enabling the company’s Infra to power all of the company’s products globally and at scale. 
  • Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity, and cost. 
  • Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement and resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale. 
  • Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture. 
  • Set clear goals and provide regular feedback on team member performance.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor's progressive work experience in software engineering. In the alternative, the employer is willing to accept a Master's Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus three (3) years of experience in Software Engineering.

Must also have three (3) years of experience in the following:

  • Software development including in Cloud systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI;
  • Creating technical architecture and design;
  • Building an operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
  • Developing software using Java and GO;
  • Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
  • Breaking down large, complex systems, identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities, and making data drive cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions; and
  • Utilizing systems and tools including: Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet.

Salary: $221,187 – $285,600/yr.

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

100% Telecommuting permitted.

Multiple Positions Available. 

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. CA50

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Stripe

About the company

Stripe

Large Enterprise

Stripe is a leading financial technology company that provides a robust platform for online payment processing and ecommerce solutions. Founded in 2010, Stripe enables businesses of all sizes to accept payments, send payouts, and manage their online transactions seamlessly. With a focus on innovation and user experience, Stripe offers a range of APIs and tools that empower developers to integrate payment functionality quickly and efficiently. Trusted by millions of businesses worldwide, Stripe continues to shape the future of online commerce and financial services.