About the Company
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate critical tier-0 backend services that must achieve 99.99%+ availability and handle security-sensitive data.
- Responsible for improving developer tooling.
- Design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure, participate in an on-call rotation, and collaborate with engineering teams across the company to plan and safely execute changes in production.
- Set up and operate infrastructure that participates in decentralized distributed systems, including creating deploy pipelines for artifacts.
- Build and harden custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) used to bootstrap EC2 instances, and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for these systems.
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
- Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe.
Candidate Profile & Mindset
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field, plus three (3) years of software engineering or related experience.
Must have three (3) years of experience in each of the following
- Cloud technologies, including AWS and Azure;
- Go, Python or Java;
- Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems;
- Linux OS;
- Metrics, alarms and dashboards;
- NoSQL databases; and
- Handling critical incidents for production systems.
Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/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
50% 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. WA61
About Stripe
Stripe, founded in 2010 by Patrick and John Collison in South San Francisco and Dublin, builds financial infrastructure for the internet. Its APIs let millions of businesses accept payments, manage subscriptions, prevent fraud with Radar, and move money with Connect and Treasury. Valued at $65B+ after its 2024 rounds and processing over $1T annually, Stripe is the default for marketplaces, SaaS and AI startups. In Web3, Stripe's crypto on-ramps and USDC payouts bridge traditional checkout with on-chain treasury. Teams emphasize written clarity, rigorous productcraft and owning money movement that must work every time. In addition to global payments infrastructure, Stripe invests heavily in crypto developer tools, USDC stablecoin settlement rails, and automated merchant payouts.