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Stripe

Stripe

South San Francisco, California, United States

5K-10K Employees

FinanceTech

Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure

Seattle, WA

Posted on Sep 11, 2026

Full TimeMid LevelOn SiteGlobal Operations

Job Description

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture. Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost. 
  • Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement in infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale. 
  • Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in Software development. 

Must also have 5 years of experience in each of the following:

  • Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
  • Building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs;
  • Scaling distributed systems;
  • Breaking down large complex systems;
  • Identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions;
  • Building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
  • Working in a development team in AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP; and
  • Programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.

Salary: $206,086.00 - $285,600.00/yr

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50 % Telecommuting Permitted. 

Multiple Positions Available. 

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA56

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About Stripe

Founded in 2009 by brothers John and Patrick Collison, Stripe is a technology company dedicated to building the economic infrastructure of the Internet. As a leading platform for commercial finance, Stripe empowers millions of businesses—from global enterprises to ambitious startups—to process payments, drive revenue, and unlock new growth opportunities.

Today, Stripe is expanding its team, offering opportunities for software engineers, infrastructure engineers and payments engineers to shape...

Job overview

Employment type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid Level

Work type

On Site

Department

Global Operations

Posted

on Sep 11, 2026

About

Job Link

stripe.com

Financials

Type

private

Annual Revenue

$1B-$10B

Market Cap

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Amount Raised

$2B+

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