Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure
- Salary
- $206,086 - $285,600 /yr
- Level
- Senior
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
- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture. Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost.
- Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement in infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale.
- Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in Software development.
Must also have 5 years of experience in each of the following:
- Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
- Building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs;
- Scaling distributed systems;
- Breaking down large complex systems;
- Identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions;
- Building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
- Working in a development team in AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP; and
- Programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.
Salary: $206,086.00 - $285,600.00/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. WA56
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
AWS · Azure · GCP
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
- Software Engineer posted Oct 2
- 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
- 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.
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