# Software Engineer

**Company:** [Stripe](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/stripe)
**Location:** South San Francisco, CA
**Work mode:** Hybrid
**Seniority:** Mid
**Employment type:** Full Time
**Salary:** USD 157K–235K/yr
**Category:** Software
**Department:** Operations
**Listed:** 2026-10-22

[View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/software-engineer-8314283)

## What you'll do

- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, culture
- Scope, design, implement, deploy robust solutions
- Balance reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, velocity, cost
- Innovate software solutions for infrastructure, resiliency, efficiency at scale
- Uphold engineering standards, improve codebase and processes

## What you need

- Bachelor's in CS or related field
- 2+ yrs software development experience
- 2+ yrs scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- 2+ yrs Go/Ruby for distributed systems
- 2+ yrs Kubernetes & containerization at scale

## 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. 
-   Make appropriate tradeoffs between reliability throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity and cost. 
-   Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute toward improvement in infrastructure, resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale. 
-   Uphold the company’s high engineering standards and improve the overall codebase and processes.

### **Who you are**

### **Minimum requirements**

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus two (2) years of work experience in software development.

Must also have two (2) years of experience in each of the following:

-   Designing and deploying scalable infrastructure within major public cloud environments, specifically using AWS, Azure, or GCP;
-   Cloud-native networking, compute instances (EC2), and storage solutions to support global, high-availability financial services;
-   Developing software in Go and Ruby to build and maintain robust distributed systems and internal tooling;
-   Writing clean, maintainable code to automate infrastructure management and develop the core services that power microservice architecture;
-   Kubernetes and containerization technologies to manage large-scale server fleets and microservices;
-   Designing orchestration strategies that ensure system reliability, efficient resource allocation and seamless deployments across a distributed environment; and
-   Designing, building, and debugging high-scale distributed systems using open-source tools, analyzing complex system architectures, identifying performance bottlenecks, and implementing data-driven optimizations that improve latency, resiliency, and cost-performance ratios.

Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/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. **CA64**

### **#LI-DNI**

## Other open roles at Stripe

- [Account Executive, Platforms (Grower) - German Speaking](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/account-executive-platforms-grower-german-speaking-8284968) — Germany
- [Software Engineer, Resource Automation](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/software-engineer-resource-automation-8314235) — South San Francisco, CA
- [Sales Manager, Europe, Enterprise Platforms](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/sales-manager-europe-enterprise-platforms-8299651) — Berlin and Munich
- [Account Executive - Enterprise (Hunter) - Belgium](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/account-executive-enterprise-hunter-belgium-8284970) — Belgium
- [Technical Program Manager](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/stripe/technical-program-manager-8312261) — Bucharest, Romania

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