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Software Engineer, Internal Identity

Stripe

na · US · 2-5 years experience · Posted Sep 25, 2026

At a glance

Experience
2-5 years experience
Location
na · US

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 role

  • The Internal Identity team builds the infrastructure that secures access to Stripe's systems through strong authentication and authorization. This role involves developing the next generation of authorization systems that model how people, services, and AI agents interact with resources.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain reliable, performant and scalable authorization infrastructure including libraries, frameworks, and services.
  • Build comprehensive understanding of authorization needs of product and infrastructure teams.
  • Build comprehensive, easy-to-use, and policy driven authorization solutions.
  • Collaborate with users to adopt authorization solutions to protect resources.
  • Build access visibility and continuous policy governance to empower resource owners, legal, and compliance teams.

Requirements

  • 2-5 years of professional hands-on software development experience
  • Experience in the security domain
  • Strong communication and cross-functional skills
  • Ability to drive clear next steps when there are not clear lines of ownership
  • Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones
  • Good product sense and ability to seek out requirements from dependent teams

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience in the identity and authorization domain
  • Experience with Go
  • Experience with Java
  • Experience with Ruby

Workplace

  • Largely a distributed team

Skills

  • Go
  • Java
  • Ruby

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