Software Engineer, Resource Automation

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

Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain backend services that support internal infrastructure and microservice operations.

Develop automation and tooling that streamlines resource provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows for internal engineering teams.

Produce and review technical designs; evaluate tradeoffs across reliability, latency, throughput, resiliency, cost, and engineering velocity.

Improve service operability by implementing monitoring/alerting, participating in on-call support as applicable, performing root-cause analysis, and addressing recurring failure modes.

Uphold engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, testing practices, and iterative improvements to existing services and systems.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field, plus 2 years of related work experience in software engineering.

Must also have 2 years of experience in each of the following:

Backend development in Go, including building production services and writing automated tests;

Distributed systems and microservices, and designing and implementing service APIs, including HTTP/REST or gRPC;

Deploying and operating services using common cloud primitives computing, networking, and storage in cloud environments including AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI;

Containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes and operating containerized services in production; and

Observability and production troubleshooting, including using logs, metrics, and tracing to diagnose issues in Linux-based environments.

Salary: $156,800.00 - $235,200.00/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. CA73

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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain backend services for internal infrastructure and microservice operations.
  • Develop automation and tooling for resource provisioning, deployments, and engineering workflows.
  • Create and review technical designs, weighing reliability, performance, cost, and engineering velocity.
  • Improve service operability through monitoring, on-call support, root-cause analysis, and failure prevention.
  • Maintain engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, testing, and iterative improvements.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 2 years of related software engineering experience.
  • At least 2 years of backend development in Go, including production services and automated tests.
  • At least 2 years of experience with distributed systems, microservices, and HTTP/REST or gRPC APIs.
  • At least 2 years of experience deploying and operating services on AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
  • At least 2 years of experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and production containerized services.
  • At least 2 years of experience with observability and production troubleshooting using logs, metrics, and tracing in Linux environments.

Benefits

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

Skills mentioned

GoBackend DevelopmentDistributed SystemsMicroservicesREST APIsCloud ComputingDockerKubernetesLinuxSoftware Testing

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.