Stripe
Fintech & PaymentsDirect Greenhouse career site

Software Engineer

Pay
$156,800 – $235,200 per year
Location
Seattle, WA
Job type
Full-time
Level
Mid-level
Experience
3+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
30 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Go
  • Python
  • Java
  • Linux
  • NoSQL databases

Also useful

  • Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
  • EC2
  • metrics, alarms and dashboards

Stated benefits & perks

  • Equity
  • 401k
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision

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.

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

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.

Read the original posting

From Stripe's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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This Software Engineer position at Stripe is located in Seattle, WA. Always check Stripe's application page for specific state eligibility or relocation policies.

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