Software Engineer

Stripe

South San Francisco, California, United StatesFull-time$156,800–$235,200Posted Oct 22, 2026

About the role

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

Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling process, and culture.

Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions.

Make appropriate tradeoffs between reliability throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity and cost.

Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute toward improvement in infrastructure, resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale.

Uphold the company’s high engineering standards and improve the overall codebase and processes.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

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.

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; and

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.

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. CA64

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Responsibilities

  • Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, processes, and culture.
  • Design, implement, and deploy robust software solutions.
  • Balance reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity, and cost.
  • Improve infrastructure, reliability, efficiency, and large-scale system management.
  • Uphold engineering standards and improve codebases and processes.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
  • At least two years of software development experience.
  • At least two years designing and deploying scalable infrastructure using AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • At least two years working with cloud-native networking, compute, and storage for highly available services.
  • At least two years developing software in Go and Ruby for distributed systems and internal tooling.
  • At least two years writing maintainable code for infrastructure automation and microservices.
  • At least two years working with Kubernetes and containerization technologies.
  • At least two years designing orchestration strategies for reliability, resource allocation, and deployments.

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses, if applicable
  • 401(k) plan
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Wellness stipends

Skills mentioned

GoAWSDistributed SystemsMicroservicesKubernetesContainerizationInfrastructure as CodePerformance OptimizationSystem DesignDevOps

About Stripe

Stripe builds programmable financial services. 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. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.

Technology5,001-10,000 employeesSouth San Francisco, California

H-1B sponsorship history

Historical employer filing data was found for Stripe. The employer record includes 1,562 historical certified applications. This is employer-level history, not a guarantee that this role currently offers sponsorship.