This role pays more than
95%
of similar roles. Most pay
$149,500–$187,587
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$253k
versus about
$169k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
173 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,400–$285,600
across 171 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join the infrastructure team to design, build, and maintain high-scale distributed systems that power core networking solutions. Your daily responsibilities include developing load balancing, mTLS networking, fleet health, and observability tools used by product teams to operate microservices. You will scope and deploy robust solutions while balancing trade-offs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity, and cost. The role requires expertise in Java and Go to develop and debug distributed systems built with open source tools. You will work with technologies including Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet across cloud environments like AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Your work focuses on building operating infrastructure and tools that empower internal developers while improving the efficiency and management of global services at scale.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.