Software Engineer

Stripe

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$156,800–$235,200 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $155k
This role $196k
$101k most similar roles pay here $250k

This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $130,620–$179,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $196k versus about $155k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 145 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $203,600–$291,650 across 142 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer, you will join the engineering team to design, build, and operate critical tier-0 backend services that manage security-sensitive data while maintaining high availability. Your daily responsibilities include improving developer tooling, building and hardening custom Amazon Machine Images for EC2 instances, and implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems. You will also develop robust infrastructure for decentralized distributed systems, create deployment pipelines, and participate in on-call rotations to handle critical production incidents. The role requires proficiency in Go, Python, or Java, along with experience in Linux OS, NoSQL databases, and cloud technologies including AWS and Azure. You will collaborate across teams to plan and execute changes while solving complex problems within a financial infrastructure platform that manages payment processing and revenue growth for businesses of all sizes.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $208250 from 378 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate critical tier-0 backend services with high availability requirements.
  • Develop and maintain robust, scalable infrastructure for production environments.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation to manage and resolve critical incidents.
  • Create and manage deployment pipelines for artifacts within decentralized distributed systems.
  • Build and harden custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to bootstrap EC2 instances.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for infrastructure components.
  • Improve internal developer tooling to enhance engineering workflows.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Must have three years of software engineering or related experience.
  • Must have three years of experience with cloud technologies, including AWS and Azure.
  • Must have three years of experience with Go, Python, or Java.
  • Must have three years of experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems.
  • Must have three years of experience with Linux OS.
  • Must have three years of experience with metrics, alarms, and dashboards.
  • Must have three years of experience with NoSQL databases and handling critical incidents for production systems.

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