Software Engineer, Stripe

• 2+ years of professional software development experience. Strong programming skills in at least one of: Go, Java, Ruby, or Python. Strong experience in other similar system programming languages is a potential alternative
• Interest in security, infrastructure, and software development
• Ability to work effectively with engineers across different teams and communicate technical concepts clearly
• Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and working across multiple programming languages
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; the team maintains and troubleshoots integrations across all Stripe languages and infrastructure
• Clear communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with other engineers
• Strong technical writing skills to write design documents

Desirable

• Secrets Infrastructure is a fully remote team, with a small presence in the San Francisco and New York City offices
• We pride ourselves on a friendly, technically rigorous, and supportive team culture
• You'll contribute to critical infrastructure that every engineer and service at Stripe depends on
• Your projects might include extending our certificate authority to support new types of workload identity, building features in our secrets platform that eliminate entire classes of security risks, or designing APIs that make secure practices the easiest path for developers
• Each project offers the opportunity to see your work deployed across Stripe's entire infrastructure
• Working closely with senior engineers, you'll participate in the full engineering lifecycle: from initial design through implementation, testing, deployment, and long-term maintenance
• All engineers on this team own projects from design through implementation, with support from senior engineers
• You'll engage with teams across Stripe to understand their security infrastructure needs and help them adopt our solutions
• As you grow in the role, you'll take on increasing ownership of components within our systems, contribute to technical strategy, and help shape how Stripe approaches authentication and secrets management
• Design and implement significant features in our certificate authority and secrets management systems
• Work across Go, Java, Ruby, and Python to implement authentication and secrets infrastructure used by every service at Stripe
• Work with with other engineering teams to understand their needs and design secrets and identity integrations
• Develop certificate provisioning and secret management integrations for various compute platforms (Kubernetes, EC2, developer workstations)
• Work on reliability improvements to maintain 99.99%+ availability for critical infrastructure; we take pride in making failure modes impossible instead of reacting to them
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical infrastructure, working alongside senior engineers to debug and resolve production issues

• The application window will remain open for 100 days after the Job Post is published.
• However, this opportunity will remain open based on the needs of the business, which may cause the application window to close before or after the 100-day mark