Staff Software Engineer, CAP

Stripe

Remote Hybrid

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Work type: Remote
Location: South San Francisco, CASeattle, WANew York, NY
Salary: $224,000–$336,000 / yr
Posted: 10 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k

This role $280k

$119k most similar roles pay here $359k

This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $142,450–$221,625 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $280k versus about $182k 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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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, CAP

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Join the Compartments and Accounts Platform (CAP) team as a Staff-level engineer, driving technical vision and leadership across Stripe’s core infrastructure. You will design and build scalable, reliable services that power critical products like Payments, Terminal, and Connect, ensuring high performance and availability for millions of requests per second. Your responsibilities include creating long-term technical roadmaps, making hands-on contributions to key projects, and mentoring team members. Ideal candidates have over a decade of experience in building large-scale distributed systems, with expertise in Java, Ruby, or similar languages. You will collaborate closely with product, design, and infrastructure teams to deliver impactful solutions that support Stripe’s rapid growth and global expansion.

Skills

Distributed computing Microservices Java Ruby CI/CD AWS Kubernetes PostgreSQL Python GraphQL REST API design Scalability Reliability Performance optimization Documentation Testing Deployment Monitoring Cloud services Infrastructure as code

What you'll do

Define long-term technical vision and roadmap for the organization's growth.
Design and implement scalable, reliable systems to support high-performance APIs.
Lead critical project delivery, ensuring value is brought to customers incrementally.
Uphold engineering standards by setting examples and enhancing quality across Stripe.
Mentor both individual contributors and managers to develop future leadership talent.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new products and services seamlessly.

What we're looking for

10+ years of experience building, operating, and evolving large-scale, high-performance APIs and services
Deep expertise in distributed computing systems and microservices architecture
Proven ability to design and build scalable, reliable, and performant services
Strong mentorship skills for developing future engineering leaders
Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a user-first mindset
Preference for simple, lasting solutions over complex designs
Experience building services using Java, Ruby, or related languages

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