Software Engineer, Secrets Infrastructure

Stripe

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Remote, US · Seattle, WA · New York, NY Posted 83 days ago $173,000–$259,600 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a senior engineer on the Secrets Infrastructure team at Stripe, you will design and implement critical features for the certificate authority and secrets management systems that underpin security across all of Stripe’s services. Your day-to-day work involves coding in Go, Java, Ruby, and Python to build developer-friendly tools and infrastructure, collaborating with other teams to integrate authentication and secret management solutions, and ensuring high availability through reliability improvements. You will also participate in on-call rotations for critical systems and contribute to security design discussions. The role requires strong experience in backend API development, cryptography, PKI, and cloud platforms like Kubernetes and Terraform, as well as a passion for learning new technologies and leading cross-team projects.

Skills

Go Java Ruby Python Kubernetes Terraform AWS Cryptography PKI Secrets Management CI/CD Docker Grafana Prometheus

What you'll do

  • Design and implement significant features in certificate authority and secrets management systems.
  • Develop integrations for certificate provisioning and secret management across various compute platforms.
  • Work with engineering teams to design authentication and identity integrations.
  • Improve reliability of critical infrastructure to maintain 99.99%+ availability.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to debug and resolve production issues.
  • Guide partner teams on security architecture decisions and cryptographic principles.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience with strong Go programming skills.
  • 3+ years of infrastructure and security experience including cryptography, PKI, and secret management.
  • Experience working with Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud platforms like AWS.
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills for complex integrations across multiple languages.
  • Clear communication skills to collaborate effectively on cross-team projects and technical direction.
  • On-call experience and ability to participate in critical infrastructure support rotations.

Market check

Salary context

This $173,000–$259,600 range sits above 86% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$124,650–$225,550

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,450–$214,500

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

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 52 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $178,600–$261,000 across 52 roles with salary data.

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