# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Stripe](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/stripe)
**Location:** South San Francisco, CA
**Work mode:** Remote
**Seniority:** Senior
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 221K–286K/yr
**Category:** Software
**Department:** Operations
**Listed:** 2026-09-02

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## 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**

-   Design, build, and maintain high-scale, distributed systems to work with the company. 
-   Work within a team to build the core networking solutions, which include load balancing, mTLS networking, fleet health & observability used by product teams to build and operate microservices supporting the company’s business. 
-   Build a great customer experience for internal company teams using Infra and play a key role in enabling the company’s Infra to power all of the company’s products globally and at scale. 
-   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 and resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale. 
-   Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture. 
-   Set clear goals and provide regular feedback on team member performance.

### **Who you are**

### **Minimum requirements**

Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor's progressive work experience in software engineering. In the alternative, the employer is willing to accept a Master's Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus three (3) years of experience in Software Engineering.

Must also have three (3) years of experience in the following:

-   Software development including in Cloud systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI;
-   Creating technical architecture and design;
-   Building an operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
-   Developing software using Java and GO;
-   Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
-   Breaking down large, complex systems, identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities, and making data drive cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions; and
-   Utilizing systems and tools including: Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet.

Salary: $221,187 – $285,600/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

100% 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. CA50

### **#LI-DNI**

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