Is the Software Engineer role remote?

It's hybrid — Stripe expects some on-site time in South San Francisco, CA, United States.

What's the salary range?

Stripe lists $156,800–$235,200 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 2 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer role.

Where is the role based?

Stripe is hiring for this position in South San Francisco, CA, United States.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, GCP, Go, Kubernetes, Ruby.

What seniority level is this role?

Stripe targets mid-level candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Software Engineer role at Stripe.

Software Engineer at Stripe

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Software Engineer at Stripe focuses on designing, implementing, and deploying scalable solutions that enhance the company's financial infrastructure. Key skills include experience with cloud environments like AWS or GCP, proficiency in Go and Ruby, and a solid understanding of Kubernetes for managing distributed systems. This position is suited for individuals with a couple of years of software development experience and a background in building high-availability services. Stripe emphasizes high engineering standards and offers a collaborative environment for innovation.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 23, 2026. Last confirmed on Stripe's careers page October 23, 2026.
This exact title is also open at 3 other locations at Stripe: Seattle, WA, Seattle, WA, Chicago, IL.
Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
Starts above 78% of 54 comparable mid backend roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $127,500 across 29 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
Kubernetes appears in 34.5% of 252 comparable mid backend roles in United States; Ruby appears in 3.6% of 252 comparable mid backend roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Software Engineer role remote?: It's hybrid — Stripe expects some on-site time in South San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the salary range?: Stripe lists $156,800–$235,200 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 2 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer role.
Where is the role based?: Stripe is hiring for this position in South San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, GCP, Go, Kubernetes, Ruby.
What seniority level is this role?: Stripe targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Software Engineer role at Stripe.

From the original posting

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

Software Engineer