Senior Software Engineer
Stripe · Posted Sep 2 · Checked open Oct 3, 2026
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- Location
- South San Francisco, CA
- Salary
- $221.2K – $285.6K a year · read from the description
- Team
- Global Operations
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.
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.
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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