Software Engineer, Resource Automation at Stripe (South San Francisco, CA)
Stripe· South San Francisco, CA·
Job description
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.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain backend services that support internal infrastructure and microservice operations.
- Develop automation and tooling that streamlines resource provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows for internal engineering teams.
- Produce and review technical designs; evaluate tradeoffs across reliability, latency, throughput, resiliency, cost, and engineering velocity.
- Improve service operability by implementing monitoring/alerting, participating in on-call support as applicable, performing root-cause analysis, and addressing recurring failure modes.
- Uphold engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, testing practices, and iterative improvements to existing services and systems.
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field, plus 2 years of related work experience in software engineering.
Must also have 2 years of experience in each of the following:
- Backend development in Go, including building production services and writing automated tests;
- Distributed systems and microservices, and designing and implementing service APIs, including HTTP/REST or gRPC;
- Deploying and operating services using common cloud primitives computing, networking, and storage in cloud environments including AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI;
- Containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes and operating containerized services in production; and
- Observability and production troubleshooting, including using logs, metrics, and tracing to diagnose issues in Linux-based environments.
Salary: $156,800.00 - $235,200.00/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. CA73
Why work at Stripe
- Culture: “Intense and kind” – high expectations paired with a supportive, transparent environment. Weekly all‑hands with senior leaders; decisions based on idea quality, not seniority stripe.com.
- Growth & Ownership: “Promotions are tied to demonstrated impact, not tenure.” Employees get substantial responsibility early, often working outside their domain stripe.com.
- Work Model: Hybrid/remote‑friendly – two main HQs (San Francisco & Dublin) plus 25+ offices, and many Stripes work from home or coworking spaces stripe.com.
- Benefits: Comprehensive medical, mental health, financial advisory, family planning, and parental leave. Education team provides onboarding and ongoing expert‑led courses stripe.com.
- Diversity & Inclusion: Employee‑created resource groups (Stripe Communities), accommodations for disabilities, and a commitment to equal opportunity stripe.com.