Stripe · 7 hours ago
Software Engineer, Secrets Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $256K/yr
5+ years expStripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, aiming to increase the GDP of the internet. The role involves building and operating the cryptographic identity and secrets management systems that support every service at Stripe, requiring collaboration with various engineering teams and a focus on reliability and security.
FinanceFinTechMobile PaymentsSaaS
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional software development experience. Strong programming skills in Go, with significant experience in other similar system programming languages (C++, Rust, C#, etc) as a potential alternative
3+ years of infrastructure and security experience (can overlap with other experience)
Experience in cryptography, PKI, secret management, or other security topics
Familiarity with infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud platforms
Interest in security, infrastructure, and software development
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 verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with other engineers
Experience leading cross-team projects and building alignment on multi-team technical direction
Strong technical writing skills to write design documents
On-call experience
Preferred
Prior experience building PKI or secret management infrastructure (as an SWE - not just provisioning a 3rd party tool or service)
Experience in Java, Ruby, or Python
Experience building developer tools, libraries, or platform services
Experience with kubernetes internals (how the platform works, not just as a user)
Experience operating complex services on AWS
Experience in fully remote work environments
Benefits
Equity
Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
401(k) plan
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Wellness stipends
Company
Stripe
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.44BKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementThrive CapitalFounders Fund
2025-02-27Secondary Market
2024-04-12Secondary Market· $694.16M
2024-03-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Steffan Tomlinson
CFO
Aitor Guevara
Head Of Engineering
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