271K–407K USD / year
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
DevOpsOn-site — Seattle, South San Francisco HQ
Published on 2026-10-02
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About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team at Stripe, you will play a key leadership role in designing and maintaining container infrastructure that supports various product teams. You will collaborate with engineers across the company to build new features at scale while focusing on automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services.
About the company
Stripe provides payment infrastructure and financial tools that help businesses accept payments, manage subscriptions, and move money globally. It serves startups through large enterprises with APIs for online and in-person commerce.
The team
Infrastructure team
Stack
LinuxKubernetesAWS EC2
What you'll do
- Design, plan, build, and maintain container infrastructure
- Lead technical discussions with other infrastructure teams
- Mentor and grow upcoming technical leaders
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
- Debug production issues across services
- Optimize and automate infrastructure for scalability and reliability
- Identify compute needs across Stripe
What we're looking for
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
- 15+ years of experience in software development or devops
- Strong networking experience
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience leading cross-team projects
- Proficiency in distributed infrastructure services
- Experience with cloud providers like AWS or Azure
- Skills in developing and maintaining distributed systems
Nice to have
- Experience debugging production issues
- Mentoring engineers
- Familiarity with ops culture and metrics