Software Engineer at Stripe (Seattle, WA)
Stripe· Seattle, WA·
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
- Conducting technical interviews;
- Creating software, tooling and distributed systems for automating and managing data center network hardware and compute stacks;
- Creating and operating shared infrastructure for Stripe’s Cardholder data environment;
- Deployment tooling;
- SOX compliance audit prep interviews, and remediations;
- PCI compliance audit prep, interviews, and remediations;
- Project management;
- Mentoring junior engineers;
- On-call responsibilities.
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, plus two (2) years of Software Development experience. Position also requires the following:
- 2 years of experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and Terraform infrastructure automation;
- 2 years of experience with reliability, scalability, and distributed systems principles;
- 1 year of experience in Go and Ansible programming languages;
- 1 year of experience in Puppet host configuration;
- 1 year of experience in Ruby programming language;
- 1 year of experience in Python programming language;
- 1 year of experience in mentorship and leadership of junior software engineers;
- 1 year of experience performing 24/7 on call rotations to support high-availability software systems;
- 1 year of experience with monitoring and logging tools;
- 1 year of experience with computer network concepts;
- 1 year of experience in the knowledge of Linux operating system and subsystems;
- 1 year of experience with cloud and application security best practices; and
- 1 year of experience with PCI compliance monitoring, audit processes, and evidence collection.
Salary: $190,400.00 - $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% remote work 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. WA67
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.