Software Engineer, Resource Automation

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
South San Francisco, CA
Salary
$156,800–$235,200 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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This role pays more than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $126,750–$214,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $196k versus about $171k 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 · Software Engineer, Resource Automation

As a Software Engineer, Resource Automation, you will join the team responsible for designing, implementing, testing, deploying, and maintaining backend services that support internal infrastructure and microservice operations. Your daily work involves developing automation and tooling to streamline resource provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows for internal engineering teams. You will produce technical designs, evaluate tradeoffs regarding reliability and latency, and improve service operability through monitoring, alerting, and root-cause analysis. The role requires proficiency in Go for backend development, distributed systems, and microservices using HTTP/REST or gRPC. You must have experience with cloud primitives in AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI, alongside Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration. You will also utilize logs, metrics, and tracing to troubleshoot issues within Linux-based environments.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain backend services for internal infrastructure and microservices.
  • Develop automation and tooling to streamline resource provisioning and operational workflows.
  • Produce and review technical designs while evaluating tradeoffs for reliability, latency, and cost.
  • Implement monitoring and alerting systems to improve service operability.
  • Perform root-cause analysis and address recurring failure modes during on-call support.
  • Uphold engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, and rigorous testing practices.
  • Build production services and write automated tests using Go.
  • Operate containerized services in production using Docker and Kubernetes.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Must have 2 years of related work experience in software engineering.
  • Must have 2 years of experience in backend development in Go, including building production services and writing automated tests.
  • Must have 2 years of experience in distributed systems, microservices, and designing/implementing service APIs like HTTP/REST or gRPC.
  • Must have 2 years of experience deploying and operating services using cloud primitives in AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
  • Must have 2 years of experience with containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes in production.
  • Must have 2 years of experience in observability and production troubleshooting using logs, metrics, and tracing in Linux-based environments.

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