Staff Full Stack Engineer, Identity

Stripe

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Remote, US · Seattle · New York · South San Francisco Posted 21 days ago $224,000–$336,000 / year
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TL;DR

As a Full Stack Staff Engineer on Stripe’s Identity team, you will lead the technical direction of one of the company's most critical product areas by defining architecture and making strategic decisions to prevent customer-facing failures. You’ll architect new systems like the Identity Store and advanced fraud detection pipelines while driving the evolution from hosted-UI products to headless-API platforms. Your role involves cross-functional alignment, setting engineering standards, mentoring senior engineers, and ensuring system reliability, scalability, and security. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of software engineering experience with a focus on API design and delivering business-accelerating solutions. Proficiency in Ruby, TypeScript, Python, Scala, Java, Go, SQL, React, GraphQL, Kafka, Protobuf, Airflow, Bazel, Temporal, Mongo, Splunk, and Prometheus is essential. Experience with identity verification, fraud detection, ML systems, and platform product builds is preferred.

Skills

Ruby TypeScript Python Scala Java Go SQL React GraphQL Kafka Protobuf Airflow Bazel Temporal Mongo Splunk Prometheus CI/CD ML systems Distributed data stores Identity verification Fraud detection Trust and safety systems

What you'll do

  • Define architecture for Identity's core systems and make strategic technology decisions.
  • Lead development of new identity verification platforms and advanced fraud detection pipelines.
  • Ensure technical alignment across multiple teams and products within Stripe.
  • Set engineering standards and mentor senior engineers on high-stakes product operations.
  • Maintain reliability, scalability, and security of designed systems with robust observability.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in strategic technical leadership.
  • Proven ability to lead engineering teams and deliver solutions that drive business growth.
  • Expertise in API design, abstractions, frameworks, and client libraries across various languages and technologies.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the capacity to work effectively in a diverse team environment.
  • Experience with identity verification, fraud detection, or trust and safety systems at scale.
  • Familiarity with machine learning systems in production, including model serving and observability.

Market check

Salary context

This $224,000–$336,000 range sits above 98% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$143,000–$250,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$165,000–$214,625

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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