Senior Software Engineer

Stripe · South San Francisco, CA

Posted 9/2/2026 · last confirmed live 9/5/2026

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 #LI-DNI  

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