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  • Stripe
  • Seattle, WA
  • 7 days ago
  • $156,800–$235,200 / year
Stripe VERIFIED EMPLOYER

Software Engineer.

Software Engineering & Dev

Software Engineer: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:This role is for a software engineer building critical backend systems for a financial infrastructure platform.
  • The Person:The person will design, build, and operate tier-0 backend services, improve developer tooling, maintain infrastructure, support on-call, and help plan and safely execute production changes.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field plus three years of experience with AWS, Azure, Go, Python or Java, Linux OS, NoSQL databases, metrics, alarms and dashboards.

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, 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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Published October 2, 2026
Location Seattle, WA