Staff Software Engineer, IAM Control Plane

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSeattle, WASouth San Francisco, CA
Salary
$224,000–$336,000 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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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 131 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 128 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, IAM Control Plane

As a Staff Software Engineer, IAM Control Plane, you will join a team of ten engineers within the Organizations and Auth Platform. You will design, build, and maintain critical systems that control user access to Stripe products and data. Your daily responsibilities include developing next-generation IAM primitives for AI-driven agentic experiences, creating new user-facing permission models, and architecting platform features like Account Groups. You will own mission-critical, highly-available backend services, working across the stack from API design and database modeling to frontend components. The role requires proficiency in modern backend languages such as Go, Ruby, or Java, along with skills in React and TypeScript. You will solve complex problems regarding API keys, user roles, and access auditing to ensure secure management of sensitive data.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 409 postings across 38 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build next-generation IAM primitives to power AI-driven agentic experiences.
  • Develop new user-facing permission models including custom roles and granular access controls.
  • Architect and implement platform features like Account Groups for large organizations.
  • Own and operate mission-critical, highly-available backend services.
  • Ship end-to-end features including API design, database modeling, and frontend components.
  • Improve engineering standards, tooling, and internal processes.
  • Mentor engineers at all levels to support their professional and technical growth.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in software development.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating backend services in a professional environment.
  • Proficiency in a modern backend language such as Go, Ruby, Java, or similar.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and solve complex problems with a product-minded approach.
  • Ability to mentor engineers at all levels to support their professional growth and technical leadership.
  • Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM), authentication, or authorization systems (preferred).
  • Familiarity with frontend technologies like React and TypeScript (preferred).
  • Experience working on developer platforms or infrastructure (preferred).

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