Stripe

Senior Software Engineer

$221K–$286K

South San Francisco, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026

Location: South San Francisco, CA
US-PERM
Experience: Five (5) years of post-bachelor's progressive software engineering experience, or three (3) years with a Master's Degree; also requires three (3) years in the specified areas.
Education: Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field; alternatively, a Master's Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.

About the job

Build and operate Stripe’s core networking and infrastructure systems that support internal teams and globally scaled products.

Design, build, and maintain high-scale distributed systems and core networking solutions, including load balancing, mTLS networking, fleet health, and observability.
Design, implement, and deploy infrastructure improvements, balancing reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity, and cost.
Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture; set goals and provide regular feedback on team member performance.

Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor's progressive software engineering experience; alternatively, a Master's Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field, plus three (3) years of software engineering experience.
Three (3) years of experience in cloud systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI; technical architecture and design; developer infrastructure and tools; Java and GO; and open-source distributed systems.
Three (3) years of experience breaking down complex systems, identifying optimization opportunities, and making data-driven cost-performance tradeoffs.
Three (3) years of experience using Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet.

$221,187 – $285,600/yr. (base salary)

AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Java, GO, Kubernetes, EC2

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