Staff Software Engineer, Service Frameworks

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 Frameworks team is responsible for empowering teams across Stripe with primitives, abstractions and interfaces to build highly reliable and performant services. As Stripe continues to scale in its product portfolio and users, this team is at the core of ensuring product teams are able to ship faster with improved developer velocity while ensuring the services behind the scenes are well architected and have guaranteed reliability, scalability and performance.

What you’ll do

You'll play a pivotal role in shaping technical strategy, collaborating closely with engineering management to drive roadmaps and strategic initiatives to level up service-based architecture at Stripe. While influencing high-level direction, you'll remain deeply engaged in hands-on problem-solving, tackling complex challenges that push the boundaries of our service frameworks.

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate closely with infrastructure and product engineering teams to align service framework development with broader organizational goals.
• Anticipate Stripe’s needs in the future and design the next generation of scalable, high-performance service frameworks and SDKs in Ruby, Java to empower developers across Stripe.
• Lead the development of practical, useful, and reliable tools, processes, and architectural patterns that enhance developer productivity and service reliability.
• Champion and build out best practices  for service-based architecture to ensure high availability and performance at scale.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead initiatives to improve operational excellence, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Architect and implement solutions for complex, cross-cutting concerns such as async processing, monitoring, and deployment automation.
• Contribute to technical decision-making at a high level, influencing the direction of Stripe's service architecture and development practices

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

• A Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field plus 10 years of experience
• Experience working across different parts of the software stack (at least 2): networking, service configuration / deployments, API development, monitoring, code generation tools 
• Experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers/product teams to deliver business value
• Experience leading and creating strong technical teams that balance operational excellence, collaboration and user needs
• Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards

Preferred qualifications

• Experience designing and architecting high-level systems and distributed systems
• Experience collaborating across engineering teams within an organization
• Ability to quickly learn and work with systems agnostic of programming languages
• Experience handling critical incidents for production systems
• Prior experience building SOA Tooling 

Hybrid work at Stripe

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $209,800 - $314,800. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and locatio