Join Stripe as a Software Engineer to build scalable authorization infrastructure for a secure commercial internet.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 14 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 14 hours ago
What you'll build
- Build and maintain reliable authorization infrastructure
- Build understanding of authorization needs
- Build easy-to-use authorization solutions
- Collaborate with users to adopt authorization solutions
- Build access visibility and continuous policy governance
Must have
- 2-5 years of professional hands-on software development experience
- Experience in the security domain
- Strong communication and cross-functional skills
Nice to have
- Experience in the identity and authorization domain
- Experience with Go, Java or Ruby
Requirements
- Experience
- 2–5 years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Software Engineer focuses on developing and maintaining robust authorization infrastructure to ensure secure access across Stripe's systems. Key skills include experience in software development, particularly in security, and familiarity with programming languages like Go, Java, or Ruby. This position is well-suited for engineers with 2-5 years of experience who possess strong communication skills and a knack for simplifying complex problems. The team operates largely in a distributed manner, emphasizing collaboration across various departments.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 11, 2026. Last confirmed on Stripe's careers page October 11, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Stripe: na.
- Go appears in 29.5% of 258 comparable mid backend roles in United States; Ruby appears in 2.7% of 258 comparable mid backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer, Internal Identity role remote?
- It's hybrid — Stripe expects some on-site time in Seattle, United States.
- How much experience is required?
- 2–5 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer, Internal Identity role.
- Where is the role based?
- Stripe is hiring for this position in Seattle, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Go, Java, 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, Internal Identity role at Stripe.
From the original posting
Who we are
About the team
Stripe's mission depends on the trust of the businesses that run on us. Internal Identity builds the infrastructure that keeps access to Stripe's systems secure: strong authentication and authorization that stays out of people's way. We decide how every engineer, service, and AI agent at Stripe gets access to what it needs, and nothing more.
We're building the next generation of authorization at Stripe. It reasons about how people, services, and resources relate to each other, and it enforces policy consistently everywhere. We’re actively making the secure path the easiest one for every team at Stripe. The technical challenges we’re solving include building systems with 99.999%+ availability, expanding authorization controls to model agents as first-class identities, and making authorization policy authorship more approachable. Engineers here own big problems end to end and work closely with teams across the company.
Internal Identity is largely a distributed team with a small presence in-person in Seattle.
What you'll do
We’re looking for an engineer who is passionate about addressing tough problems in the authorization space. This role is critical, not only for Stripe, but for the future of the commercial internet.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain reliable, performant and scalable authorization infrastructure (e.g. libraries, frameworks, services).
- Build comprehensive understanding of authorization needs of our users (e.g. product teams and infrastructure teams).
- Build comprehensive, easy-to-use, and policy driven authorization solutions.
- Collaborate with our users to adopt our authorization solutions to protect their resources by providing a great user experience.
- Build access visibility and continuous policy governance to empower resource owners, legal and compliance to put risk of inappropriate access under control.
Who you are
We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 2-5 years of professional hands-on software development experience
- Experience in the security domain
- Strong communication and cross-functional skills; drives clear next steps when there aren’t clear lines of ownership
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones; have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
- Good product sense; able to seek out requirements from dependent teams and align them with business needs
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in the identity and authorization domain
- Experience with Go, Java or Ruby
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