Careers at Stripe

Who we are About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team The Manager of the Technical Solutions Engineering (TSE) team will grow and inspire the team responsible for the success of developers and our largest users integrating with Stripe's platform & products. What you’ll do At Stripe we consider the developer experience to be central to the overall experience of our customers. When we do our job well, developers all over the world are able to smoothly launch and grow their businesses on Stripe, whether they’re integrating payments for the first time or building & growing complex systems on our financial infrastructure. Stripe is beloved by developers for the simplicity of our APIs, the thoroughness of our documentation, and our focus on developer experience. The Technical Solutions Engineering team is the glue to make that possible. We make our users feel empowered when we show them about something Stripe could do that they didn't think was possible. Internally, we champion developer experience as central to the overall experience around Stripe. Responsibilities Define and deliver a comprehensive technical support experience for developers and our most complex users (via internal user-facing teams) integrating Stripe Develop both the long-term vision and strategy for the Technical Solutions Engineering team and manage day-to-day operations Develop relationships across the entire organization at Stripe to influence others in aiming for the best developer experience possible Work cross-functionally across Stripe to bring innovative ways to make Stripe’s developer experience even more self-serve & impactful. Recruit, coach, and develop user facing engineers Inspire, motivate and enable individual development and promote career growth of the team Define, implement, and monitor key metrics that ensure the future sustainability and quality of the developer support experiences 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 Experience leading, managing and developing user-facing engineering teams Background in software development in one or more programming languages Your immediate team is based in Singapore and Japan, with US-based management (Central Time). This role requires a work schedule that provides meaningful daily overlap with APAC business hours. For candidates based in the United States, this role is only suitable for those in Pacific Time zones, working approximately 11 AM to 8 PM PT. The exact hours are flexible within that range, but APAC overlap is a firm requirement of the role. Preferred qualifications Direct experience as a user-facing engineer is highly desired. You attract great teammates. You encourage a healthy work environment that’s both supportive and challenging. You’re excited to help engineers develop new skills and advance in their careers. You understand what makes teams successful and what role a manager can play in that process. You’re clear and persuasive in writing and in person. You lead by example, by setting the right context, and by helping teammates do their best work. You know when to let a team work through problems and when to jump in to help. You’re technical enough to ask engineers good questions about design and integration decisions.

Who we are About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team Link helps Stripe's merchants deliver frictionless and secure checkout experiences by auto-filling customers' payment information, letting customers check out in seconds and pay in one click across the Link merchant network. The Link Balance team is building on top of that network to transform Link from a one-click checkout into a global consumer financial platform. Link Balance lets consumers hold, spend, earn rewards on, and off-ramp digital dollars—stored as stablecoins, powered by Bridge and Privy, and distributed through Stripe's network of hundreds of millions of consumers. We're bringing the borderless, programmable, and instant utility of digital dollars into everyday use. What you'll do We’re hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of new money-movement capabilities in Link. You will take ambiguous product opportunities and turn them into reliable, scalable, and intuitive experiences for consumers and merchants. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with broad technical and organizational scope. You will own large, cross-functional projects from early product and technical definition through launch and iteration; lead teams of engineers through complex execution; and partner closely with the many Stripe systems and teams that make money movement possible. You will work across the stack, building services and APIs as well as the user experiences that expose those capabilities. The work may involve modern financial infrastructure—including stablecoin-enabled capabilities—while requiring sound judgment around safety, reliability, compliance, and user trust. You will make the architectural decisions that let the balance model scale globally, and raise the engineering bar for the team as we grow. Responsibilities Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and execution for large, ambiguous Link initiatives that create new money-movement primitives. Own projects end to end: clarify the problem, define an incremental technical plan, align stakeholders, drive delivery, launch safely, and use results to guide further investment. Build robust, scalable backend services and high-quality consumer-facing experiences across Java, Ruby, and TypeScript. Lead a project team of engineers through execution, creating clarity on priorities, decisions, risks, and delivery milestones. Partner with Product, Design, Data Science, Risk, Infrastructure, and other Stripe teams to build capabilities that are safe, reliable, and useful. Navigate dependencies across Stripe’s payments and money-movement platforms, making thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, user experience, operational reliability, and durable technical foundations. Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, mentoring, and constructive feedback across the team. Help shape the team’s longer-term roadmap by identifying opportunities, technical risks, and investments needed to scale Link’s financial capabilities globally. 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 8+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience, with a track record of owning large, ambiguous systems end-to-end. Demonstrated technical experience leading the design and delivery of large, complex software projects from early definition through production launch. Strong full-stack engineering skills, including experience building reliable backend services and polished user-facing product experiences. Experience leading and unblocking a group of engineers on a substantial project as a senior individual contributor. Ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments: framing problems, making durable technical decisions, and creating an actionable path forward. Excellent cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration skills, with the ability to align teams with different systems, priorities, and constraints. Strong engineering judgment around system reliability, operational excellence, security, and maintainability. A product-minded approach to engineering, with a focus on delivering meaningful outcomes for users and the business. Preferred qualifications Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript. We care more about strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn than expertise in a particular language or framework. Experience building payments, money-movement, fintech, or other regulated financial products. Experience building consumer products at scale, particularly products that require a high degree of user trust. Experience working on 0→1 products or taking new capabilities from concept through launch and iteration. Familiarity with stablecoins, digital assets, or the infrastructure that enables global financial products. Appreciation for the importance of good documentation—internal and external—and taking pride in seeing projects through to successful completion

Who we are About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team The Dashboard Product team is committed to providing world-class user experiences for Stripe merchants. We focus on perfecting the Dashboard Stripe’s main interface for merchants - by infusing meticulous attention to detail and craft. We take immense pride in our work and deeply care about the quality of the products we deliver. We’re dedicated to building a team with an acute focus on detail, nurturing a level of craftsmanship that makes us proud to share our work with the world. We serve two core user groups. First, is real merchants using the Dashboard. We own the most critical, first-touch surfaces, such as the homepage, which we drive to set the benchmark for intuitive, reliable software. This work directly informs our second set of users, internal product teams. We distill our front-line insights into shared components and paradigms, empowering the entire organization to build a consistent, holistic Dashboard experience. We're a mentorship-forward team where staff engineers work directly alongside early-career engineers to raise the quality bar across everything we ship. We're also actively exploring how AI agents can unlock new creative possibilities for how merchants interact with their products, and we're excited to bring that same spirit of invention to the frontend craft. What you'll do As a Frontend Engineer on the Dashboard Product team, you’ll collaborate with skilled designers and engineers to drive UX excellence in the Stripe Dashboard. You’ll craft experiences that simplify complex tasks for merchants, ensuring high performance, seamless information architecture, and intuitive discoverability. You’ll work on inventing new paradigms and elevating existing ones, with an eye toward broader use cases on the Dashboard. Working closely with designers and cross-functional groups, you’ll craft experiences that help merchants understand their business and execute essential tasks with surprising levels of ease and delight. You’ll also mentor early-career engineers to raise our collective quality bar, all while exploring how emerging AI agents can unlock new, creative ways for merchants to interact with their business. Responsibilities Own the frontend quality, consistency, and visual craft of the Stripe Dashboard's highest-traffic pages, with particular focus on core logged-in surfaces Identify and execute opportunities to improve consistency, performance, and polish across the Dashboard Partner closely with Design and Product,, serving as the technical voice on frontend feasibility, quality standards, and implementation approach Contribute to and advocate for the Stripe design system, ensuring components and patterns work well across the Dashboard and other product surfaces Establish frontend quality standards for the team, including patterns, code review practices, and implementation guidance for junior engineers Prototype and explore AI-powered experiences that change how merchants discover and interact with Stripe products Collaborate with backend engineers on integration points while keeping frontend craft as your core focus 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 This is a Staff-level role - that typically means 10+ years of experience building and shipping complex, user-facing web applications at large scale Deep expertise in modern frontend development, with strong opinions on UI quality and the ability to execute to a high level of visual precision Track record of driving measurable improvements to UI consistency and polish across large, distributed products Experience working closely with Design teams and translating design intent into high-quality production implementation Demonstrated ability to work across a large codebase and bring coherence to high-traffic product surfaces Preferred qualifications Passion for crafting beautiful experiences on the web, demonstrated through a design portfolio and frontend code showcasing engaging microsites, Figma plugins, creative code, design systems, or other similar endeavors Familiarity with frontend performance engineering, including profiling, instrumentation, and optimization Interest in AI-driven user experiences, with experience prototyping or shipping AI-powered features Experience mentoring early-career engineers and contributing to team-wide quality standards Comfort working across the full stack when needed, with a clear preference and passion for frontend craft Advanced proficiency with React, with an emphasis on interactions, animation, performance, and refinement Experience with A/B testing, synthetic monitoring, or accessibility testing

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning Credit Risk Who we are About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team The Credit Risk team develops intelligent systems that help Stripe identify high-risk accounts, minimize credit losses, and improve profitability. Credit risk is a complex machine learning problem that requires us to distinguish emerging risk from healthy business activity while giving legitimate users a clear and reliable experience. Our team consists of machine learning engineers who build models and systems used across Stripe’s credit-risk products. We work closely with partners in Product, Data Science, Credit Strategy, Operations, and other engineering teams. Together, we help stakeholders make informed decisions and support sustainable growth wherever credit risk affects Stripe’s products. What you’ll do We’re looking for an engineering manager to lead the Credit Risk team and shape how Stripe uses machine learning to manage credit risk at scale. You’ll set the team’s technical and product direction, connect advances in machine learning to measurable business outcomes, and help engineers deliver reliable systems that balance loss prevention with the user experience. You’ll work across engineering, product, data science, and risk to identify the highest-impact opportunities and turn them into a focused roadmap. You’ll also hire and develop engineers, strengthen the team’s technical practices, and contribute to machine learning and engineering leadership across Stripe. Responsibilities Set and execute the strategy for detecting and mitigating credit risk through machine learning Own outcomes related to credit losses, profitability, detection quality, and the user experience Lead the design and delivery of reliable machine learning models, services, and decision systems Translate advances in machine learning into practical capabilities that support the team’s business goals Partner with Product, Data Science, Credit Strategy, Operations, and engineering teams to define priorities and deliver cross-functional programs Recruit, hire, and develop machine learning engineers while building an inclusive and effective team Contribute to broader engineering and machine learning initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team 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 3+ years of experience managing engineers who build and operate production machine learning systems Experience applying machine learning to complex, real-world problems and leading the technical delivery of models and supporting systems Experience setting strategy and working across engineering, product, data science, operations, and business teams to deliver measurable outcomes Experience recruiting, managing, and developing engineers in a fast-moving environment with significant autonomy Preferred qualifications Experience with credit risk, fraud detection, financial risk, trust and safety, or another domain involving decisions under uncertainty Experience balancing risk reduction with customer or user experience Experience building machine learning systems that support high-stakes, time-sensitive decisions at scale Experience setting a multi-year technical direction while delivering progress through quarterly plans Experience managing geographically distributed teams

About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team Risk Detection is focused on providing a delightful experience for our merchants and minimizing friction, while ensuring the safety of our users in the financial ecosystem. Whenever the Risk team takes action on an account, we work to notify Merchants and provide clear status on what’s happening, enable guided workflows for resolving their issues, and redefine our overall Risk processes to make them as smooth as possible for good merchants. What you’ll do We’re looking for an engineering leader to lead and grow a strong team of engineers, build relationships with customers internally and externally, and champion our vision of making Stripe’s risk management a feature that attracts and retains merchants, and becomes a product differentiator. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with teams across Stripe to build the best merchant experience, and contribute directly to Stripe’s growth. Responsibilities Support the team in delivering a high level of technical quality and impact via APIs, user-facing experiences, services, and systems Recruit, hire, scale, and develop an amazing team of engineers Executing cross-functionally with leadership, product teams, infra teams & risk strategists Be actively involved in strategic direction and platform decisions that impact all of Stripe and Stripe customers 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 At least 3 years of engineering management experience Prior experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or equivalent Preferred qualifications You have managed teams that can collaborate with product teams, respond rapidly to customer needs along with building technology and capabilities that are strategic and foundational in nature Enjoy designing, measuring & improving user experience You are empathetic to customer needs but visionary enough to not just deliver a faster horse You are comfortable planning in quarters, and can set a vision for several years You are comfortable working with geographically distributed teams and remote workers

Who we are About Privy Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, we build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails. Privy owns the abstractions and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products like Treasury and Link. We get to solve hard technical problems while leveraging Stripe's distribution to reach customers like Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo — powering experiences for both mainstream users and crypto natives. Learn more about Privy: Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone About the team Engineering at Privy is distinguished by: High urgency: Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly. Product taste: Our customers are developers, and to build effective products for them requires technical knowledge - you will often be "the PM". Security mindset: A great portion of our product is trust. While we have a dedicated security team, every engineer brings security to their designs from the start. In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions that are accessible to mainstream developers. What you’ll do As a Security Engineer at Privy, you will help keep a rapidly growing platform secure through hands-on investigation, operational ownership, and building real code to solve real problems. You’ll work across security operations, incident response, application and infrastructure security, and internal tooling. This is not a role limited to reviewing logs and designs or simply escalating findings. You will carry real ownership for the day-to-day work that protects Privy: investigating anomalies, improving security workflows, and building the automation that makes the team faster and more effective over time. You’ll work closely with engineers across Privy and alongside specialists in cryptography, application security, offensive security, and infrastructure security to turn security expertise into practical, durable outcomes. Responsibilities Own security engineering work end to end: investigate alerts, findings, anomalies, and security requests; identify root causes; drive remediation; and clearly document outcomes. Participate in Privy’s security on-call rotation, helping respond to incidents, triage alerts, support vulnerability workflows, complete access reviews, and handle security escalations. Build and maintain production-quality tooling that reduces manual work, including alert enrichment, automated triage and routing, remediation workflows, access-review automation, and detection improvements. Lead focused investigations into suspected security events or compromises, gathering evidence methodically and coordinating the appropriate response. Proactively identify recurring sources of operational toil and engineer durable solutions that improve the team’s speed, consistency, and ability to scale. Partner with product and engineering teams to assess security risks, review lower-complexity designs and implementation plans, and make practical security tradeoffs to deliver quickly with quality and soundness. Contribute across Privy’s application, infrastructure, cloud, and product-security surface area, developing broad context while building deeper expertise over time. 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 Experience as a security engineer, detection engineer, or similarly hands-on engineer in a technically demanding environment. Strong software-engineering skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or a similar language. You can build maintainable tooling and contribute directly to production fixes, not only one-off scripts. Experience investigating security signals, incidents, vulnerabilities, suspicious activity, or other ambiguous technical problems through to resolution. Familiarity with security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, detection engineering, access reviews, or related operational-security workflows. A strong understanding of web, browser, infrastructure, or cloud security, with the ability to apply that understanding across a broad range of problems. Good judgment under pressure, a methodical approach to investigation, and comfort working independently with agency despite incomplete information. Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical findings, risks, and recommended actions clearly to clients and internal stakeholders alike. A self-directed approach to work: you notice gaps, make progress through ambiguity, and reliably close the loop. Preferred qualifications Experience with AWS, GCP, or other cloud-security environments. Experience with detection engineering, security automation, incident-response tooling, or remediation pipelines. Bug-bounty experience, offensive-security exposure, or a strong attacker-minded approach to investigation. Experience with IAM, secrets management, secure production access, or secure CI/CD. Background in application security, infrastructure security, cryptography, or privacy engineering. Experience with fintech, payments, blockchain, or another diligence-forward financial product domain. Experience helping shape security operations, incident-response practices, vulnerability-management workflows, or a bug-bounty program.

Who we are About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team Collecting and filing sales & indirect taxes is a classic area for technology disruption. Companies selling across countries, states, and even smaller jurisdictions have to navigate through a myriad of tax rates, product-level tax exemptions, filing requirements, and registration obligations. The rules are constantly changing, and not accurately calculating and filing tax can have legal ramifications. It’s no surprise then that solving for tax compliance is a top user ask. We launched Stripe Tax as a new SaaS product in 2021 to help solve this pain point and make tax compliance as effortless as possible. The Stripe Tax Capabilities team engineers sophisticated solutions for our largest merchants, who face unique and highly complex tax requirements that differ significantly from smaller businesses, by automating their most intricate global compliance use cases. What you’ll do We’re looking for software engineers who are interested in building software services and platforms that impact millions of Stripe users. You will be working alongside a diverse set of peers spanning design, product and engineering to identify, build and maintain complex tax capabilities that empower and retain our largest customers on Stripe Tax. Responsibilities Operate with limited oversight and own end-to-end the delivery of projects, including independently scoping, designing, implementing, and productionizing features Work backwards from complex customer needs to identify opportunities and drive meaningful business impact Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, infrastructure, marketing and operations Debug production issues across services and improve the team's overall operational health Develop and execute against both short- and long-term goals Establish and uphold best practices in engineering, security, and technical design 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+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops) Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic) Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial Have the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external cross discipline stakeholders Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users Preferred qualifications Track record of working directly with customers and ability to influence product decisions Experience in integrating robustly with external systems and/or APIs Experience in both frontend and backend development

Who we are About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team The Service Infrastructure team is responsible for empowering teams to build highly reliable and performant services, backing our payment systems, fraud detection, and a multitude of other products. As an infrastructure team, you will build and expand the service frameworks to make complex systems easy to use, resilient, and scalable. We build powerful interfaces for engineers that depend on these systems—deployment, load balancers, web framework, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes—while keeping them highly available and performant. We're looking for engineering leaders who drive the technical vision of Stripe's service infrastructure platform for thousands of engineers to use and build on top of, and thrive in a highly autonomous environment with many moving pieces. What you’ll do You will join as a Technical Lead for one of the most impactful teams at Stripe. You will lead a team of engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs, and advance service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption at Stripe. By collaborating with the team's technical leaders, you will ensure the software your team builds meets the needs of Stripe and its customers. We are a highly effective team that consistently delivers high-impact results while genuinely caring for one another. We expect you to bring your curiosity and critical thinking skills to this challenging domain. We are looking for individuals with a strong background in designing and delivering high-performance infrastructure products for both internal and external customers. We would love to hear from you whether you have spent your entire career in infrastructure or are looking to apply your skill set to the database engineering domain for the first time. Responsibilities Lead a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions that meet user needs Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure's key engineering initiatives Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture and design, vision, direction, and requirements setting, and incident response processes) for team members Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe's services roadmap Build a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team 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 12+ years of technical experience 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g., building internal or external developer products) Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to a high level of psychological safety for all team members and partners Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Go) Preferred qualifications Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide) Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc.) Experience leading partially remote and distributed teams Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs Experience building serverless platforms Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on-call rotations We don't expect deep expertise in every dimension above, but genuine curiosity about any of the areas that are less familiar is important to us

Who we are About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team The API Platform team is responsible for empowering teams to build highly reliable and performant services, backing our payment systems, fraud detection, and a multitude of other products. As an infrastructure team, you will build and expand the service frameworks to make complex systems easy to use, resilient, and scalable. We build powerful interfaces for engineers that depend on these systems—deployment, load balancers, web framework, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes—while keeping them highly available and performant. We're looking for engineering leaders who drive the technical vision of Stripe's service infrastructure platform for thousands of engineers to use and build on top of, and thrive in a highly autonomous environment with many moving pieces. What you’ll do You will join as a Technical Lead for one of the most impactful teams at Stripe. You will lead a team of engineers, collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs, and advance service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption at Stripe. By collaborating with the team's technical leaders, you will ensure the software your team builds meets the needs of Stripe and its customers. We are a highly effective team that consistently delivers high-impact results while genuinely caring for one another. We expect you to bring your curiosity and critical thinking skills to this challenging domain. We are looking for individuals with a strong background in designing and delivering high-performance infrastructure products for both internal and external customers. We would love to hear from you whether you have spent your entire career in infrastructure or are looking to apply your skill set to the database engineering domain for the first time. Responsibilities Lead a team of talented engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions that meet user needs Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure's key engineering initiatives Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture and design, vision, direction, and requirements setting, and incident response processes) for team members Work with leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision of Stripe's services roadmap Build a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the team 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 12+ years of technical experience 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g., building internal or external developer products) Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to a high level of psychological safety for all team members and partners Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Go) Preferred qualifications Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide) Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc.) Experience leading partially remote and distributed teams Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs Experience building serverless platforms Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on-call rotations We don't expect deep expertise in every dimension above, but genuine curiosity about any of the areas that are less familiar is important to us

Who we are About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team The Storage Abstractions (STAX) team builds the software layer through which Stripe services access stored data. We own the database SDKs that hundreds of Ruby and Java services use to read and write data safely, reliably, and efficiently without needing to understand the underlying database, routing, or operational complexity. Our work creates leverage across Stripe: by providing stable interfaces and safeguards at the storage layer, we help teams build products with confidence while enabling Stripe’s data architecture to evolve. Alongside engineers, we are designing for AI agents as customers of this foundation, making storage capabilities discoverable, interoperable, and safe to use across languages and storage backends. What you’ll do As a Staff Software Engineer on STAX, you will set technical direction and lead multi-year initiatives at the intersection of developer infrastructure, data access, and AI. You will work hands-on with engineers across Stripe to make storage access simpler, safer, and more interoperable, while helping product and infrastructure teams evolve their systems without fleet-wide migrations. You will help turn Stripe’s AI strategy into practical developer infrastructure by treating AI agents as customers of the storage layer. This is an opportunity to build frameworks and interfaces that make complex storage operations discoverable, interoperable, and safe for both human developers and agentic workflows, while raising the quality bar for systems used throughout Stripe. Responsibilities Set technical direction for Stripe’s storage-access and lead high-impact initiatives from strategy through delivery Evolve storage abstractions so service teams can use consistent and reliable capabilities across languages, API versions, and storage backends Design stable interfaces and guardrails that improve data correctness, reliability, observability, and performance by default Treat AI agents as customers by building agent-accessible SDKs, frameworks, and developer workflows that enable safe, effective use of storage infrastructure Partner with senior leaders, engineers, product teams, and core infrastructure teams to solve cross-organizational data architecture challenges Mentor engineers and raise the bar for technical design, execution, and operational excellence across the team 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. Requirements This is a Staff-level role so we're looking for 12+ years of professional software engineering experience and 5+ years leading technical strategy and delivery for complex, cross-team engineering initiatives Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, SDKs, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g., building internal or external developer products) Experience designing reliable distributed systems with a focus on data correctness, performance, and safe evolution of critical infrastructure Work designing developer infrastructure for AI or agentic workflows and helping define a technical direction for their use Demonstrated customer-centricity, with a track record of deeply understanding user needs and obsessing over delivering simple, reliable experiences for internal or external customers Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to a high level of psychological safety for all team members and partners Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python) Preferred qualifications Experience with MongoDB or other large-scale storage systems, such as DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, RocksDB, or relational databases Experience guiding adoption of a shared developer platform across a large internal engineering organization Experience developing observability and operational tooling that helps platform users diagnose and resolve issues Experience in financial technology or another environment where data correctness and reliability are especially important Experience influencing product and organizational decisions with senior leaders and broad stakeholder groups Experience leading partially remote and distributed teams Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on-call rotations We don't expect deep expertise in every dimension above, but genuine curiosity about any of the areas that are less familiar is important to us.