Software Engineer

Stripe

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Work type: On-site
Location: South San Francisco, CA
Salary: $156,800–$235,200 / yr
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $154k

This role $196k

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This role pays more than 81% of similar roles. Most pay $124,850–$183,925 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $196k versus about $154k 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 131 open roles on FindRole.

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

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At a glance

TL;DR · Software Engineer

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As a Software Engineer, you will join the engineering team to scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions that improve infrastructure, resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale. Your daily responsibilities include contributing to team strategy and roadmap, making critical tradeoffs between throughput and latency, and upholding high engineering standards to improve the codebase. You will develop software in Go and Ruby to build and maintain robust distributed systems and internal tooling. The role requires designing and deploying scalable infrastructure within major public cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP. You will utilize Kubernetes, containerization technologies, and cloud-native networking to support global, high-availability financial services. You must also analyze complex system architectures to identify performance bottlenecks and implement data-driven optimizations for microservice architectures.

What does a Software Engineer earn in California?

Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.

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Skills

AWS Azure GCP Go Ruby Kubernetes Microservices Distributed Systems EC2 Cloud-native Networking System Architecture

What you'll do

Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust software solutions.
Develop software in Go and Ruby to build and maintain robust distributed systems.
Design and deploy scalable infrastructure within major public cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Manage large-scale server fleets and microservices using Kubernetes and containerization technologies.
Design orchestration strategies to ensure system reliability and efficient resource allocation across distributed environments.
Build and debug high-scale distributed systems using open-source tools to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
Implement data-driven optimizations to improve latency, resiliency, and cost-performance ratios.
Write clean, maintainable code to automate infrastructure management and core microservice services.

What we're looking for

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
Must have two years of work experience in software development.
Must have two years of experience designing and deploying scalable infrastructure in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Must have two years of experience with cloud-native networking, compute instances, and storage for high-availability financial services.
Must have two years of experience developing software in Go and Ruby for distributed systems and internal tooling.
Must have two years of experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies to manage large-scale server fleets.
Must have two years of experience designing orchestration strategies for system reliability and resource allocation.
Must have two years of experience designing, building, and debugging high-scale distributed systems using open-source tools.

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