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StripeSeattle🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 2, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Join Stripe as a mid-senior Software Engineer and contribute to a world-class financial infrastructure platform, offering significant career growth and the chance to shape the future of online commerce. You'll thrive in this hybrid role if you're passionate about building highly available, secure systems and collaborating with talented teams to deliver impactful solutions. Apply now to be part of a company with a strong reputation and a mission to increase the GDP of the internet.

Quick Overview

Salary
$156.8k - $235.2k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Seattle, United States
Posted
4 days ago
AWSAzureBootstrapJavaPython

Job Description

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 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.

Who you are

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

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