Staff Software Engineer,

Seattle, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Toronto · US · Remote · Posted Oct 8, 2026

At a glance

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.

You will be joining the High Availability and Disaster Recovery team to design and build new solutions allowing latency-critical, stateful applications to survive disasters.
This team creates greenfield solutions that will serve as the basis for Stripe’s architecture 5, 10, or 20 years into the future.

Actively work with leaders and engineers across the company to understand and identify opportunities to improve Stripe’s reliability posture
Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust distributed services, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
Innovate, design and implement new products and prototypes to improve service resiliency, engineering velocity and management at scale
Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture
Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes

Have 10 years or more of distributed and cloud native software development experience at a highly-scaled or hyperscaler service
Have a deep understanding of how to build scalable, resilient, distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and mission critical systems
Have experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large projects across many teams
Thrive in a collaborative environment involving diverse stakeholders and subject matter experts
Have a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial, proactive and self-driven
Have a strong history of being a technical lead and mentor across several engineering teams