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
68 days ago
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $280k
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This role pays more than 96% of similar roles. Most pay $172,125–$246,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $280k versus about $209k for comparable roles.

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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–$291,650 across 142 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Service Infrastructure

As a Staff Software Engineer, Service Infrastructure, you will join the Service Infrastructure team as a technical lead to empower other teams by building and expanding service frameworks. You will be responsible for creating high-performance infrastructure products, advancing service-oriented architecture adoption, and leading a team of engineers through mentorship and roadmap planning. Your daily work involves managing the full development lifecycle, designing architectures, and overseeing incident response processes for critical systems like load balancers, web frameworks, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes. You will utilize your expertise in API design, abstractions, and client libraries to solve complex problems regarding reliability and scalability. The role requires proficiency in at least one major programming language, including Java, Ruby, Python, or Go, while providing technical leadership to ensure infrastructure components remain highly available and performant for internal and external users.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $208250 from 378 postings across 36 companies.

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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 the company's engineering vision.
  • Prioritize engineering work based on user needs and pain points to deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Oversee the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery while maintaining high quality standards.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership in architecture, design, requirements setting, and incident response.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to define and drive the long-term services roadmap.
  • Advance service-oriented architecture adoption across the organization.

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.
  • 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.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (preferred).
  • Experience with common infrastructure platforms, serverless platforms, or managing incident response processes (preferred).

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