Staff Software Engineer, Service Infrastructure

Stripe

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Work type: On-site
Location: Seattle, WASouth San Francisco, CA
Salary: $224,000–$336,000 / yr
Posted: 91 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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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, Service Infrastructure

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As a Staff Software Engineer, Service Infrastructure, you will join the Service Infrastructure team as a Technical Lead to empower engineers by building highly reliable, performant, and scalable service frameworks. You will lead a team of engineers to advance service-oriented architecture adoption, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery. Your daily work involves providing hands-on technical leadership in architecture, design, and incident response while collaborating with infrastructure and product engineering organizations. You will utilize proficiency in Java, Ruby, Python, or Go to build interfaces for deployment, load balancers, web frameworks, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes. This role solves the complex problem of making internal systems resilient and easy to use, ensuring that core payment systems and fraud detection remain highly available.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 409 postings across 38 companies.

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Skills

Java Ruby Python Go Kubernetes Kafka SOA API Design Databases Serverless Logging Event Streams Metrics Caching

What you'll do

Lead a team of engineers by providing mentorship, guidance, and technical support.
Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that align with a cohesive engineering vision.
Prioritize engineering work by identifying and addressing user needs and pain points.
Oversee the entire development lifecycle from project planning to final delivery.
Provide hands-on technical leadership for architecture, design, requirements, and incident response.
Collaborate with company leaders to drive the long-term vision for the services roadmap.
Support key infrastructure initiatives by working with high-visibility teams and stakeholders.

What we're looking for

12+ years of technical experience.
5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
Experience leading engineering teams working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries.
Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers.
Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.
Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding.
Proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Ruby, Python, or Go.
Experience with common infrastructure platforms, serverless platforms, or leading distributed teams (preferred).