Staff Engineer, Billing

Stripe

Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
South San Francisco, CAAtlanta, GANew York, NYSeattle, WAChicago, IL
Salary
$224,000–$336,000 / yr
Posted
5 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $280k
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This role pays more than 97% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$232,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $280k versus about $198k 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 61 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $172,500–$259,600 across 61 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Staff Engineer, Billing

As a Staff Engineer on the Revenue & Financial Automation team at Stripe, you will lead the technical direction of the extensibility platform for Stripe Billing, enabling businesses to customize billing logic through user-authored scripts and orchestration. You will collaborate with domain teams to identify high-leverage extension points and build them into first-class features, ensuring robustness and resilience in systems that handle failures gracefully. Your responsibilities include driving adoption among external customers and internal teams, defining the technical roadmap, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive experience in software architecture, distributed systems, and leading complex projects across multiple teams. Preferred qualifications include fintech or payments industry experience, platform engineering expertise, and a background in building extensible systems. This high-autonomy position involves navigating novel challenges and establishing technical patterns for the team to build upon as you scale from early adoption to general availability of Stripe Billing’s extensibility capabilities.

What you'll do

  • Define and drive the technical architecture of Stripe Billing’s extensibility platform.
  • Identify high-leverage extension points across billing systems and build them into products.
  • Own end-to-end solutioning for complex problems, from design to production delivery.
  • Build resilient systems that handle failures gracefully in user-authored logic contexts.
  • Drive adoption of extension capabilities by external customers and internal teams.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading complex projects.
  • Proven technical leadership on teams developing external products for customer use.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, and resilient system design.
  • Demonstrated ability to build alignment and drive initiatives across organizational boundaries.
  • Strong communication skills, including producing clear documentation for various audiences.
  • Experience in fintech, payments, or billing systems (preferred).
  • Background in domain-driven design or building extensible systems (preferred).

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