Stripe
Staff Software Engineer, API Platform
San Francisco, Seattle +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, Seattle
US - Experience
- 12+ years of technical experience; 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
About the job
Leads an engineering team building Stripe’s API and service infrastructure platform, advancing service-oriented architecture and delivering reliable, scalable tools for engineers.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor engineers while partnering with Engineering Managers on roadmaps and technical vision.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture, design, project delivery, and incident response.
- Work with stakeholders across the company to understand user needs and deliver infrastructure initiatives.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of technical experience and 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
- Experience leading engineering teams working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries.
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers.
- Proficiency in at least one of Java, Ruby, Python, or Go.
Nice to have
- Experience with common infrastructure platforms, distributed teams, in-house frameworks, serverless platforms, or incident response and on-call rotations.
- Strong written and verbal communication for different audiences.
Tools
Java, Ruby, Python, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes
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