Senior Software Engineer

Stripe

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Work type: Remote
Location: South San Francisco, CA
Salary: $221,187–$285,600 / yr
Posted: 54 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $164k

This role $253k

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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$177,781 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $253k versus about $164k for comparable roles.

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology

Stripe currently has 131 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 128 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join the infrastructure team to design, build, and maintain high-scale distributed systems. Your primary responsibilities include developing core networking solutions such as load balancing, mTLS networking, and fleet health and observability tools used by product teams to operate microservices. You will scope and deploy robust solutions while balancing reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, and cost. The role requires developing software using Java and GO within cloud environments like AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. You will utilize tools including Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet to build operating infrastructure that empowers developers. You must be able to break down complex systems to identify optimization opportunities and make data-driven tradeoffs to improve the efficiency and management of global infrastructure.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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Skills

Java Go AWS Azure GCP OCI Kubernetes EC2 Envoy Linux Puppet Distributed Systems mTLS Load Balancing Observability Technical Architecture

What you'll do

Design, build, and maintain high-scale, distributed systems.
Build core networking solutions including load balancing, mTLS, and fleet observability.
Develop infrastructure and tools to improve the internal customer experience for product teams.
Scope and deploy robust solutions while balancing reliability, throughput, latency, and cost.
Implement software solutions to improve system resiliency, efficiency, and management at scale.
Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, and engineering processes.
Set clear goals and provide regular performance feedback to team members.

What we're looking for

Must have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field plus five years of post-bachelor's progressive software engineering experience.
A Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related field plus three years of software engineering experience is also accepted.
Must have three years of experience in software development for Cloud systems including AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Must have three years of experience in creating technical architecture and design.
Must have three years of experience building operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers.
Must have three years of experience developing software using Java and GO.
Must have three years of experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools.
Must have three years of experience utilizing systems and tools including Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet.

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