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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
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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 managing fleetwide container migrations. Your daily work involves designing multi-service dependency-aware pipelines, extending real-time anomaly detection for traffic shifts, and building durable event-publishing infrastructure for observability. You will utilize technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, and Terraform to manage cloud resources and service mesh routing capabilities like canary rollouts. The role focuses on solving critical deployment safety problems by reducing change-related incidents through automated rollbacks and smarter pipelines, while improving developer experience by creating high-level abstractions that simplify complex infrastructure operations for hundreds of internal engineering teams.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $208250 from 395 postings across 38 companies.
Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of large, ambiguous infrastructure projects from initial design through production launch.
Architect next-generation deployment platforms including multi-service pipelines, Kubernetes primitives, and fleetwide container migrations.
Expand automated anomaly detection to earlier traffic-split stages and build self-service onboarding systems for service types.
Design and manage the deployment event infrastructure, including schema design and durable message bus integration.
Ensure operational excellence by leading incident response and systematically reducing manual toil for the deployment platform.
Set technical standards through critical design reviews and mentoring engineers on high-stakes architectural decisions.
Translate complex platform challenges into scoped, parallelizable work to guide the engineering team's execution.
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, including rollout strategies and failure modes.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments for service lifecycle management and fleet migrations.
Strong background in service reliability and operational excellence to lead incident response and reduce toil.
Track record of broad technical impact through code review, mentorship, and setting technical direction for teams.
Background in deployment safety systems like anomaly detection or automated rollbacks (preferred).
Familiarity with event-driven architectures, Infrastructure as Code, developer platforms, change management tools, or service mesh concepts (preferred).