Software Engineer
- Salary
- $156,800 - $235,200 /yr
- Level
- Mid
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 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, 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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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
AWS · Azure · Linux · NoSQL
Rare in Stripe's other 286 open postings.
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
Read against Stripe's other open postings on this site.
The team: Global Operations HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 15 open in Global Operations. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in August: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Java (9 of 15), Python (9 of 15), Ruby (8 of 15), AWS (6 of 15), Golang (6 of 15), SQL (5 of 15), Azure (4 of 15)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Software Engineer posted Oct 9
- Senior Software Engineer, Backend posted Sep 24
- Data Scientist posted Sep 22
- Software Engineer, Backend posted Sep 14
- Software Engineer, Payins Card Networks posted Sep 14
- Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery posted Sep 14
- Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure posted Sep 11
- Senior Software Engineer, Product Velocity posted Sep 11
- Senior Software Engineer, Docs Product posted Sep 3
- Senior Software Engineer posted Sep 2
- Product Designer, Growth posted Aug 28
- Business Systems Architect (Tax) posted Aug 20
- Software Engineer posted Aug 17
- Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure posted Aug 12
From the team and dates on Stripe's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted 2 times since 2 June 2026: a posting for this role in Seattle, WA was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 9 October 2026 – open
- 2 October 2026 – open (this posting)
- 2 June 2026 – closed 7 August 2026
Salary context
213 other open postings titled Software Engineer state a salary: median USD 140,000 to USD 200,000 a year.
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