Staff Software Engineer, Deployment Platform
Stripe
Quick summary
Market check
How this pay compares to similar roles
This role pays more than 96% of similar roles. Most pay $171,000–$247,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $280k versus about $209k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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.
Most-posted roles
At a glance
As a Staff Software Engineer, Deployment Platform, you will join the Core Change Management group on the Service Deployments team to build and maintain the end-to-end code deployment platform. You will lead the technical delivery of large infrastructure projects, including architecting next-generation deployment orchestrators, implementing Kubernetes-native primitives, and migrating fleets to containerized infrastructure. Your daily work involves designing multi-service pipelines, extending real-time anomaly detection for traffic shifts, and building durable event-publishing systems for observability. You will utilize technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, and Terraform while managing complex distributed systems. The role focuses on solving critical deployment safety problems by creating automated rollbacks, canary rollout capabilities, and robust configuration management tools to ensure high-velocity code changes are executed safely across hundreds of services. You will also mentor engineers and set technical standards for the internal developer platform.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $208250 from 395 postings across 38 companies.
Skills
What you'll do
What we're looking for
More like this
Stripe
Stripe
Stripe
Stripe
PayPal
GEICO