Staff Software Engineer, Deployment Platform

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$224,000–$336,000 / yr
Posted
86 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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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–$286,800 across 142 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Deployment Platform

As a Staff Software Engineer, Deployment Platform, you will join the Core Change Management group to build and evolve the end-to-end code deployment platform. You will lead the technical delivery of large infrastructure projects, including architecting next-generation orchestrators with multi-service dependency awareness, migrating fleets to containerized infrastructure, and building robust event-driven notification systems. Your daily work involves designing API contracts, extending blue-green traffic analysis for anomaly detection, and ensuring operational excellence across deployment pipelines. You will utilize Kubernetes, container orchestration, and potentially Kafka or Terraform to manage complex distributed systems. The role focuses on solving critical reliability and safety problems within the deployment lifecycle, aiming to reduce change-related incidents while improving developer experience. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and create high-level abstractions for internal tools that facilitate safe, rapid software delivery across hundreds of services.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $208250 from 395 postings across 38 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of large, ambiguous infrastructure projects from initial design through production launch.
  • Architect the next generation of the deployment platform including multi-service pipelines and Kubernetes-native primitives.
  • Expand automated anomaly detection to earlier stages of traffic shifts and create self-service onboarding for service types.
  • Build and maintain the deployment event infrastructure for notification, schema design, and downstream system integration.
  • Ensure operational excellence by leading incident response and systematically reducing manual toil across deployment systems.
  • Set technical standards and provide high-level architectural guidance to mentor engineers on complex infrastructure decisions.
  • Translate large platform challenges into scoped, parallelizable work tasks for the engineering team.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production infrastructure systems at scale.
  • Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous infrastructure projects end-to-end including technical design and cross-team coordination.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems and deployment orchestration for services built and operated at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments, including migrating fleets from VM-based infrastructure.
  • Strong background in service reliability, incident response, and building maintainable systems.
  • Track record of broad technical impact through code review, mentorship, and setting technical direction for teams.
  • Background in deployment safety systems, event-driven architectures, or Infrastructure as Code (preferred).
  • Experience with developer platforms, change management tools, or service mesh concepts (preferred).

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