Founded in 2009 by brothers John and Patrick Collison, Stripe is a technology company dedicated to building the economic infrastructure of the Internet. As a leading platform for commercial finance, Stripe empowers millions of businesses—from global enterprises to ambitious startups—to process payments, drive revenue, and unlock new growth opportunities. Today, Stripe is expanding its team, offering opportunities for software engineers, infrastructure engineers and payments engineers to shape the future of online commerce.

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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 Stripe processes over $1T in payments volume per year, which is roughly 1% of the world’s GDP. The tremendous amount of data makes Stripe one of the best places to do machine learning. The ML Infra team builds services and tools that power every step in the ML lifecycle, including data exploration, feature generation, experimentation, training, deploying, serving ML models, and building LLM applications. With the phenomenal developments happening in the field of AI, we are positioned to accelerate the adoption of AI/ML across all parts of the company by building highly scalable and reliable foundational infrastructure. What you’ll do You will work closely with machine learning engineers, data scientists, and product engineering teams to enable seamless end-to-end experience in building solutions across data, analytics, and AI/ML platforms. You will build the next generation of ML Infra services and major new capabilities that substantially improve ML development velocity and MLOps maturity across the company. Responsibilities&nbsp; Designing and building scalable, reliable, and secure services for notebooks, ML model training, experimentation, serving, and LLM applications across multiple regions.&nbsp; Creating services and libraries that enable ML engineers at Stripe to seamlessly transition from experimentation to production across Stripe’s systems.&nbsp; Working directly with product teams and ML engineers to improve their day-to-day productivity.&nbsp; Taking ownership of and finding solutions for technical and product challenges by working with a diverse set of systems, processes, and technologies. Who you are We’re looking for people with a strong background or interest in building successful products or systems; you’re passionate about solving business problems and making impact, you are comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces; and you’re comfortable learning new technologies and systems. You are comfortable working with other Stripe teams across the US and Canada. Minimum requirements 2+ years of professional software development experience with a solid background on service oriented architecture and large-scale distributed systems Experience working through the full life cycle of software development, from talking to users, to design and implementation, to testing and deployment, to operations Experience working on production ML platforms, MLOps solutions, or building LLM applications Experience running operations for high availability, low latency systems Experience partnering with other teams to drive business outcomes A sense of pragmatism: you know when to aim for the ideal solution and when to adjust course Preferred qualifications&nbsp; Experience building and shipping production AI agents Familiarity with the LLMs and LLM Frameworks Experience training and shipping machine learning models to production to solve critical business problems

Software Engineer, Machine Learning Infrastructure

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 Optimized Checkout Suite (OCS) Team‘s vision is to abstract all checkout from our users by offering them a suite of end to end optimized surfaces and capabilities that delivers so much outstanding value (revenue, lower cost and profit) and control, that our users would deem themselves as irresponsible to not leverage Stripe’s OCS. What you’ll do We’re looking for a product leader to own the buyer experience on Stripe’s Optimized Checkout Suite. In this role you will set the vision, define the strategy, and execute on the roadmap for Stripe to help its users deliver the best checkout experience for the end customer. This will require you to build deep customer empathy with Stripe’s users and their users, propose holistic non-obvious solutions to meet their needs, and to champion those solutions inside and outside of Stripe. Our ideal Product Manager has extensive experience with checkout experiences and payment integrations, has managed complex products, and is obsessed with solving for user needs. They are technical, able to put themselves in the shoes of developers, but also have an acute attention to detail when it comes to user experiences. They operate well in close partnership with their engineering teams, as well as drive initially ambiguously defined projects across the broader company. Deep payments, experimentation and user experience knowledge is a bonus for this role. Responsibilities Develop the long-term vision and strategy for Stripe’s OCS buyer experience prioritize accordingly, and create an execution roadmap Deeply understand our users’ needs by spending time with developers, sales, and support, and by observing patterns/trends across their feedback and the market Propose the right experiments to run to ensure we have the safest and most performant checkout on the internet Set the pace, prioritization and execution for the team Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as Engineering, Design, Data Science, Marketing, Sales, Account Management, and Operations 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 Brings 8+ years of experience in a product management role Has partnered closely with engineers and designers to build products (especially front end surfaces) and complex systems at scale Has an obsession with product quality and an eye for design Has the ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility Brings a desire for continuous product improvement and can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small, medium, and large releases Has strong written and verbal communication skills with a talent for precise articulations of customer problems Preferred qualifications Strong business acumen and comfortable with complex ecosystem and system level problems Experience with payment integrations is a plus ML and experimentation experience&nbsp;

Product Manager, Optimized Checkout Suite, Buyer Experience

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 Stripe Terminal helps our users extend their online presence to the physical world. The Terminal team’s mission is to make it as easy for businesses to accept in-person payments as the Stripe API has done for online payments – building for Unified Commerce. With Terminal, businesses can unify their in-person and online experiences, unlocking payments use cases that are right for their business model – whether it’s creating a modern retail experience, extending their website to a pop-up store, or enabling a mobile point-of-sale at their next event. Within Terminal, the Developer Productivity team empowers mobile, full-stack and embedded / firmware engineers to ship high-quality products quickly and safely. We build tools, processes and infrastructure that accelerate engineers across multiple teams. Our work is critical to supporting Stripe’s in-person payment products and, ultimately, to helping increase the GDP of the internet. We own a diverse tech stack, including: build and developer productivity tooling for mobile engineers; release tooling that enables Terminal releases across SDKs, Android apps and firmware; and test automation infrastructure that helps product engineers ensure the quality and reliability of what they ship. As a Staff engineer on this team, you’ll shape the strategy and architecture of this tooling and infrastructure and drive its adoption across Terminal. What you’ll do Responsibilities Define the architecture and technical strategy for Terminal Developer Productivity, aligning with stakeholders and building long-term sustainable solutions that solve developer productivity challenges and increase engineering velocity Design, build and maintain high-quality tools, infrastructure and services, contributing hands-on through code, design documents and code reviews to ensure reliability, scalability and operational excellence Partner with engineering, product and central Developer Productivity teams to define and evolve the technical roadmap for Terminal Developer Productivity and translate it into executable projects with clear outcomes Define and track key developer productivity and reliability metrics (e.g. build times, test stability, release velocity) and drive initiatives that materially improve them Engage directly with internal teams to understand their workflows and pain points, gather feedback and ensure the tools and infrastructure you build meaningfully improve their day-to-day experience Own the operational excellence of the developer tooling stack, including reliability, incident response and continuous improvement of systems and processes Lead a team of technically sophisticated engineers, providing technical mentorship, elevating engineering standards and serving as a force multiplier for the team’s impact 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 This is a Staff-level role meaning we typically look for at least 10+ years of software engineering experience BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience Substantial work across mobile and backend systems Demonstrated experience designing, building and operating scalable, resilient and observable systems across the stack Ability to listen well, synthesize input from across the organization and set a technical vision that others are excited to follow Strong bias toward simple, robust and scalable designs over unnecessary complexity Ability to thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving multiple stakeholders and subject matter experts Experience serving as the technical lead for a team of engineers, with evidence of broad technical leadership (e.g. setting direction, making tradeoffs, elevating standards) Proven track record of scoping and leading large, complex technical projects with significant impact across multiple teams or domains Preferred qualifications&nbsp; Proficiency in one or more of: Kotlin, Java, or Go Experience building tools or platforms to improve developer productivity, with clear empathy for internal developer users Experience with CI/CD tooling and pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and modern build systems Experience designing and maintaining automated testing infrastructure (e.g. integration/end-to-end test frameworks, test orchestration, or flakiness reduction) Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives or standards in areas such as build, test, or release engineering

Staff Software Engineer, Terminal Developer Productivity

About Bridge We’re creating an entirely new payments platform, built with stablecoins, to simplify global money movement. Bridge enables faster, cheaper payments and borderless access to dollars via stablecoins. Through our APIs, businesses can send and receive funds across borders faster / cheaper vs. SWIFT and other fiat-only rails. Our virtual accounts enable international consumers and businesses to easily access, store and spend US dollars. Our payouts infrastructure enables platforms to disburse USD to anyone globally. We believe many trillions of dollars will move and settle through stablecoin payment rails. Bridge is pulling this future forward.&nbsp; We have a small team of people who have previously built financial infrastructure at some of the world’s leading companies (Coinbase, Stripe, Square, Brex, Upstart, DoorDash, Airbnb) and each and every one of them chose Bridge because they fundamentally believe that stablecoins will be a critical piece of financial infrastructure that allows for the improvement of global money movement. Description Join our Product team to build the systems that make global, programmable money trustworthy at scale. At Bridge, we’re not just improving global payments — we’re reinventing how money moves across borders using stablecoins and modern financial infrastructure. As a Product Manager for Fraud Risk / AML, you’ll own the products and systems that allow Bridge to scale safely across geographies, partners, and transaction volumes. You’ll work at the intersection of product, engineering, data, compliance, and operations to design risk systems that are fast, adaptive, and deeply embedded in how our platform works. This role is about enabling high-velocity growth with strong controls — using real-time signals, model-driven decisioning, and thoughtful product design to move fast without cutting corners. Role Expectations Own the end-to-end Fraud Risk / AML product surface, including transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, controls, limits, and escalation workflows. Drive product features from ideation to launch in close collaboration with engineering, data, legal, compliance, and operations. Design and evolve model-driven, AI-enabled risk systems that learn from new patterns, reduce friction, and improve decision quality at scale. Translate complex regulatory, operational, and partner requirements into scalable, intuitive product solutions. Build and execute a Fraud Risk / AML roadmap that supports global expansion, new corridors, higher volumes, and new customer use cases. Balance automation and human-in-the-loop workflows to optimize for safety, speed, and operational efficiency. Define and own key risk metrics (e.g. loss rates, false positives, review volume, time-to-resolution) and use them to guide prioritization and iteration. Anticipate system failure modes and design controls that are resilient, observable, and adaptable. Work closely with financial institutions and technology partners to ensure Bridge’s risk posture scales globally. What You’ll Need to Thrive Product judgment for complex systems: You’re comfortable reasoning across UX, data, models, ops, and regulation. Strong risk intuition: You see risk as a product and systems problem — not just a policy or compliance function. Comfort with AI-enabled products: You understand how real-time signals, models, and feedback loops can drive better decisions at scale. Owner’s mentality: You take responsibility for outcomes, not just feature delivery. Bias toward clarity: You can simplify complex risk concepts into understandable decisions and experiences. Collaborative instinct: You partner deeply across teams but can make the call when tradeoffs are hard. Curiosity and adaptability: You learn quickly, iterate often, and adjust as new patterns emerge. Preferred Qualifications 6–10+ years of product management experience, with exposure to risk, fraud, compliance, payments, fintech, or crypto. Experience building or owning systems related to transaction monitoring, fraud detection, KYC/KYB, AML, or underwriting. Familiarity with data- or model-driven decisioning systems, including automation and human-in-the-loop workflows. Experience operating across multiple geographies, regulatory environments, or financial partners. Comfort working with APIs, platforms, or infrastructure products. Why This Role Is Different You’re building risk as a growth lever, not a gate. You’ll work on problems where AI and real-time decisioning matter. You’ll help define how stablecoins and programmable money earn trust at global scale. You’ll shape foundational systems every Bridge product depends on. If you’re excited to build the systems that let global money move fast, safely, and at scale, we want to hear from you!

Product Manager - Fraud Risk / AML, Bridge

Please note: the deadline to apply for this role is April 24, 2026.&nbsp; Who we are&nbsp; 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 Stripe is looking for AI-enabled builders. If you are looking to apply your skills at a company that deeply cares about quality with global scale, we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for early career engineers who can solve problems, write code, ship features, and iterate quickly, all with a core focus on elevating Stripe’s craft and quality. This is a 12-month intensive training program where you will be paired with a host team within Stripe, given a broad mandate, and ideally placed full time in a Product Manager role after completion of the program. What you’ll do Embed yourself deeply with Stripe’s users. Our users expect Stripe to provide the best financial technology that is also enabled with deep insights, automations and features that only AI can solve. You will work with users on a daily basis to understand their needs and forge new solutions. Own the entire lifecycle. You'll take a user problem from initial discovery through design, implementation, deployment, and iteration. Build on a home team, learn across Stripe. You'll start on one team (e.g. Dashboard, Docs, Crypto, Payment Methods) and eventually land a full time role as a Product Manager.&nbsp; Ownership mindset. When you hit technical constraints, unclear requirements, or process friction, you'll figure it out. You'll navigate codebases, track down answers, and push through obstacles. Optimize how you work, not just what you build. You'll constantly refine your workflows and tooling to increase your leverage. Every bottleneck is an opportunity to automate or improve; and then show others how to achieve our end goals. What success looks like Users win: You deliver meaningful features and improvements week after week. Users see real impact from your work. Quality and speed: You maintain Stripe's quality bar while moving faster than traditional team-based development. Influence: Your approaches to AI-enabled development spread to the rest of the team. You help others level up their AI skills. Logistics Location: In-person at Stripe offices in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York. You'll benefit from direct collaboration and a strong support network as we figure this out together. Experience level: New grad or 0-2 years of professional experience, with a CS or engineering degree. We care more about what you've built (through internships, personal projects, or school) than years of specific experience. &nbsp;

Product Manager: New Grad Accelerator

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 Stripe Capital provides access to fast, flexible financing to businesses, with the mission of helping them accelerate their growth. Businesses use the funds for marketing, hiring, geographic expansion, working capital, new equipment purchases, and much more. Capital has scaled meaningfully over the last few years, both in terms of user impact (over 81,000 businesses received financing through Stripe Capital in 2025 alone!) as well as financial impact as a business line within Stripe. Over 95% of our users say they love using Capital, making us one of Stripe’s most popular products – and we’re just getting started! What you’ll do The Capital PM team is responsible for three things – deeply understanding our users’ needs, creating a lending and financing roadmap for the products we want to build, and leading a cross-functional team (across engineering, design, marketing, finance, and more) to get things done.In this role, you will be responsible for Capital’s International business, product suite, and roadmap. Capital is rapidly expanding across numerous countries and we’ve seen exciting momentum and stellar year-over-year growth. We are looking for a Product Manager who can own our international efforts end-to-end, setting the core vision / strategy as well as growing the existing business. This leader will effectively function as the “mini-GM” of the Capital International business, leading a cross-functional team across engineering, design, sales, marketing, and more to build a best-in-class lending platform. Success in this role means operating and building financing products that serve our users’ needs and growing our reach across more countries and users. Responsibilities Deeply understand the financing needs of users on Stripe, from end borrowers to platforms. Be the voice of the user and the subject matter expert on how Capital can help users with their business objectives. Be the face of Capital with major international partners and customers. Define Stripe’s product strategy and roadmap for scaling lending solutions globally. Partner cross-functionally to design, build, and launch user-facing product experiences. Drive the adoption and impact of financing across both direct businesses and platforms. 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 5+ years of experience in product management within technical domains. Passion for building technology that promotes economic opportunity. Ability to speak the language of many different stakeholders – move effortlessly from engineering scoping to UX design reviews to helping outline legal and compliance requirements. Experience aligning a broad set of stakeholders via strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to thrive with significant autonomy and responsibility. Preferred qualifications &nbsp;Experience launching and scaling fintech products.

Product Manager, Capital

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 Our internship program will provide an opportunity to work on meaningful products that will grow the GDP of the internet. Through the internship, you will work with many systems and technologies, gain experience in systems design and testing, and have opportunities to present your work to your team and the wider org. Each intern has a dedicated intern manager, and every project is part of the team’s roadmap and will directly help Stripe’s mission. What you’ll do Every internship at Stripe centers around a real, legitimate project that our customers urgently need, touching many parts of our operations and stack. We will support you in shipping it. Yes, you will actually ship it. Some recent projects include rebuilding our statistics aggregation service, building new service discovery systems, and many user facing projects like making it easy to understand error messages on Stripe Checkout. As a Stripe intern, you'll be tackling important projects to increase global commerce, while working alongside exceptional people who insist on doing their best work. You’ll learn from people with high standards who are great at inspiring others to do more and go further. We value technical and personal growth, and see our internship program as a vehicle to foster both. Responsibilities Write software that will be used in production, and has meaningful impact to Stripe Give and receive technical feedback through code reviews or design discussions Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to proactively seek and incorporate feedback Learn quickly by asking great questions, by working with your intern manager and teammates effectively, and by communicating the status of your work clearly 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 strong fundamental understanding of computer science through pursuit of a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, math, or a related discipline Some experience and familiarity with programming, either through side projects or classwork. We work mostly in Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, and Go. We believe new programming languages can be learned if the fundamentals and general knowledge are present Experience from previous internships or other multi-person projects, including open source contributions, that demonstrate evaluating and receiving feedback from mentors, peers, and stakeholders Ability to learn unfamiliar systems and form an understanding of those systems, through independent research and working with a mentor and subject matter experts Preferred qualifications At least 2 years of university education, or equivalent work experience One or more areas of specialized knowledge balanced with general skills and knowledge, such as knowing more frontend technologies and, at a high level, how a service handles an HTTP request Understanding and some experience writing high quality pull requests, with good test coverage, and working knowledge to complete projects with minimal defects Familiarity with navigating and managing your work in new code bases, with multiple languages Ability to write clearly to explain your work to stakeholders, team members, and other Stripes

Software Engineer, Intern

About the team The Product Security Data Platforms team is a newly established engineering team within Stripe Security. Our mission is to build the foundational infrastructure that provides our users with unprecedented visibility into the security posture of their Stripe integration. While Stripe is renowned for industry-leading payment protection, we are expanding our focus to provide a comprehensive security telemetry platform that helps businesses protect their entire digital ecosystem on Stripe. As a founding member of this team, you will be architecting a large-scale customer-facing security data pipeline and presentation layer. Much like modern security observability platforms and data lakes that have transformed cloud infrastructure, we are building an API-first service that transforms massive streams of behavioral data into actionable security intelligence. This team operates at the intersection of high-throughput data engineering and cybersecurity, creating the systems that will allow the world’s most sophisticated companies to monitor, detect, and respond to threats in real-time. What you’ll do As a Senior Software Engineer on this founding team, you will lead the technical design and implementation of our core security data pipelines. You will be responsible for defining how security signals are captured, processed at scale, and delivered to our users through robust, developer-friendly interfaces. If you have security domain knowledge, there are significant opportunities for you to help shape product vision. Responsibilities Architect Scalable Foundations: Design and implement a highly available, low-latency pipeline capable of processing and augmenting millions of events per second into structured security telemetry. Build API-First Products: Develop the core services and streaming APIs that enable enterprise customers to seamlessly ingest security signals into their own internal security operations centers and analytics tools. Engineering Security Signals: Partner with security researchers and threat detection experts to build the logic that identifies anomalous behavior and surfaces high-fidelity security insights. Define Technical Strategy: Lead the technical roadmap for the platform, making critical decisions on data modeling, storage strategies, and the abstraction layers that will support future security products. Drive Engineering Excellence: As a senior leader, you will set the bar for code quality, system resilience, and operational maturity for a product that requires 99.99%+ availability. Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Stripe’s core platform and data teams to leverage global infrastructure while ensuring security data remains isolated and protected. Who you are We are looking for an experienced backend and systems engineer who thrives on building new products from scratch. You should have a deep background in distributed systems and a passion for building platforms that empower other developers and security professionals. Minimum requirements 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a history of shipping and maintaining complex, large-scale systems. Expertise in Data Engineering &amp; Distributed Systems: Deep experience building and operating high-throughput data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark, or similar streaming technologies). Strong Programming Fundamentals: Significant experience in languages like Java, C++, or Rust. System Design Leadership: A proven track record of designing robust, scalable architectures and leading cross-team technical initiatives from conception to launch. Operational Mindset: Experience maintaining mission-critical services with high availability requirements, on-call rotation, and a strong focus on observability and debugging. Communication &amp; Collaboration: Excellent technical writing skills for drafting design documents and the ability to mentor other engineers while collaborating with non-technical stakeholders. Preferred qualifications Security Domain Knowledge: Prior experience building security analytics, threat detection systems, or observability platforms. Platform Engineering: Experience building "as-a-service" infrastructure where the primary users are other engineers or external developers. Cloud Native Infrastructure: Prior experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform). Product Intuition: A desire to work on "0-to-1" initiatives where you help define the product requirements and user experience alongside engineering. Front-end / Full Stack Experience:&nbsp;Prior React / TypeScript frontend experience is helpful

Software Engineer, Product Security Data Platforms

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 Stream Compute team at Stripe builds and operates the infrastructure, tooling, and systems behind our Flink-powered stream processing systems. We're at the heart of several core asynchronous workflows, operating at significant scale and handling vast amounts of sensitive financial data. Our work powers intricate processes involving various critical financial operations and real-time analytics. We run globally distributed systems with high reliability and performance to meet Stripe's scaling, availability, and product needs, and we continually reduce operational toil by investing in automation and self-service tooling for upgrades, maintenance, and day-to-day operations. The team is distributed between Seattle, Toronto and remote locations. &nbsp; What makes our team truly exciting is our commitment to our users: we ensure no event is dropped, state integrity is preserved, and support exactly-once processing as a first-class feature. Working at the intersection of real-time data processing and fintech innovation, we continuously push the boundaries of what's possible. Our focus on innovation, user experience, reliability, and compliance drives increased ROI and operational excellence, making us a crucial part of Stripe's success. What you'll do You'll help define and deliver the next generation of Stripe's Flink-first stream compute infrastructure—driving innovation to meet extremely high availability targets at global scale. Partnering with infrastructure engineers, adjacent platform teams, and the product orgs that depend on Flink every day, you'll set a long-term technical direction that scales with Stripe's growth while enabling reliable, efficient operations for years to come. You'll work on the hardest problems in operating Flink in production—state management, exactly-once processing, performance isolation, and automated recovery—so teams across Stripe can confidently build stateful stream processing applications on top of it. Responsibilities Design, build, and operate stream compute infrastructure with Apache Flink at the center, alongside technologies like Kafka, Temporal, and AWS services Partner with product and platform teams across Stripe to understand requirements, unblock Flink adoption, and improve how stream processing infrastructure is used end-to-end Define and implement operational best practices (e.g., shuffle sharding, cellular architecture, load shedding, automated state recovery) to improve resilience and reliability at scale Drive fleet-level automation and standardization ("pets" to "cattle") through self-service workflows, safer rollouts, and self-healing systems that reduce manual operations Lead initiatives that raise the bar on Flink availability and state durability (e.g., multi-region strategies, disaster recovery readiness, operational readiness reviews, incident learning) Evaluate and productionize Flink ecosystem capabilities (e.g., SQL, connectors, state backends) to improve developer experience and scalability without compromising reliability Work closely with the open source community to identify opportunities for adopting new open source features as well as contribute back to OSS 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 This is a Staff-level role - that typically means 10+ years of experience building, operating, and evolving large-scale production systems Experience as a technical lead for team(s) working on distributed systems, including scaling them in fast-moving environments Hands-on experience with big data technologies such as Flink, Spark, Kafka, Pulsar, or Pinot Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools Experience building and scaling infrastructure as a product Strong software engineering skills and a passion for Big Data Distributed Systems Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, Scala, etc) Comfortable operating with high autonomy and ownership Growth mindset and a willingness to learn quickly, explore ambiguous problem spaces, and dive deep when needed Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear technical documentation Preferred qualifications Experience operating streaming infrastructure as a platform (e.g., Flink clusters, Kafka, Pulsar) for internal customers at scale Deep hands-on experience authoring, optimizing, and operating real-time processing frameworks such as Flink, Spark Streaming, Storm, or Kafka Streams in production Experience building or operating control planes for managing large-scale infrastructure Open source contributions to data processing or big data systems (Hadoop, Spark, Celeborn, Flink, etc)

Staff Software Engineer, Stream Compute

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 Packaging team within User Billing is responsible for Stripe Scale — Stripe's flagship product bundle that brings together Payments, Radar, Tax, and other Stripe products into a unified, tiered pricing offering for self-serve and sales-assisted users. A core part of our approach is using Stripe's own Billing product to power how we charge for Stripe itself — essentially making Stripe our own most demanding customer. This "dogfooding" strategy means we integrate our external-facing subscription, usage-based billing, and entitlement products into our internal monetization stack, generating real-world insights that directly improve our products for enterprise customers with complex billing needs. This is a uniquely cross-functional domain. Stripe Scale sits at the intersection of pricing strategy, subscription management, entitlements, usage-based billing, fee calculation, and settlement — spanning both Stripe's internal commerce platform and Stripe's external Billing product. The Packaging team partners closely with Product, Sales, Finance, Accounting, Connect, Tax, Revenue Recognition, and many product engineering teams across Stripe to define, price, and operationalize bundles. As the team grows beyond Stripe Scale into additional bundle offerings, we need a technical leader who can not only design and build complex distributed systems, but also navigate the organizational complexity of delivering a product that touches nearly every corner of Stripe. What you'll do We're looking for a Staff Engineer who combines deep technical skill with exceptional relationship-building and communication abilities. You will be the connective tissue between the Packaging team and its many stakeholders, driving alignment across engineering, product, and business functions while ensuring sound technical execution. You will: Drive cross-team technical strategy and alignment for Stripe Scale and future bundles, working across Stripe's internal commerce platform, Stripe Billing, Connect, Tax, Revenue Recognition, Accounting, and Finance to ensure cohesive system design and delivery Be the primary technical point of contact for partner teams, proactively building relationships, establishing shared context, and creating clarity on dependencies, timelines, and tradeoffs Lead the design of complex, multi-system integrations — we use Stripe's own Billing product to bill for Stripe, which means you'll architect systems spanning subscription orchestration, billing routing, usage tracking, entitlement management, fee settlement, and invoice generation across both internal and external billing platforms Translate ambiguous business requirements into clear technical plans, working closely with Product and business stakeholders to identify the right technical approach for evolving packaging and pricing strategies (e.g., new tiers, bundle versioning, sales-sold transitions) Drive decision-making through influence, not authority, bringing engineering leaders and cross-functional partners together to resolve competing priorities, negotiate resource commitments, and align on roadmaps — especially in areas where the Packaging team depends on other teams' delivery Ensure operational excellence by establishing strong patterns for testing, incident response, and billing accuracy across the dual-system architecture (internal commerce platform + Stripe Billing) — where misbillings directly impact Stripe's revenue and user trust Mentor and uplevel engineers on the team, with a particular emphasis on cross-team collaboration skills, stakeholder management, and writing clear technical proposals and decision documents Communicate transparently and proactively to leadership and partner teams — surfacing risks early, framing tradeoffs clearly, and building trust through consistent follow-through Responsibilities Own and evolve the technical roadmap for the Packaging domain, balancing near-term delivery (Stripe Scale GA and beyond) with long-term platform investments for future bundles Drive interoperability across Stripe's internal commerce platform, Stripe Billing, and the broader product ecosystem — ensuring that pricing, subscriptions, entitlements, usage, fee calculation, settlement, and reporting work cohesively Lead cross-team and cross-org technical efforts, including the complex integration between Stripe's internal commerce platform and Stripe Billing — spanning billing router design, event transformation pipelines, and usage/entitlement tracking systems Partner with Product to shape packaging strategy from a technical feasibility lens — including bundle composition, tiering, upgrade/downgrade flows, and eligibility logic Build and maintain strong working relationships with engineering leads on partner teams (Billing V2, Connect, Tax, Revenue Recognition, Accounting Automation) to ensure aligned priorities and smooth execution Represent the Packaging team's technical needs in planning forums, execution reviews, and cross-org discussions — advocating clearly and constructively for the team's dependencies Establish engineering best practices for the team including design review processes, testing strategies for multi-system billing flows, and incident remediation playbooks Contribute hands-on to critical system design and implementation, particularly in areas requiring deep understanding of both the internal commerce platform and Stripe Billing APIs Who you are Minimum requirements 10+ years of professional software development experience, including technical leadership of projects spanning multiple teams or product areas Demonstrated excellence in cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management — you have a track record of building strong relationships across engineering, product, and business functions to drive complex, multi-team initiatives to completion Exceptional communication skills — you can distill complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, write clear and persuasive design documents, and facilitate productive discussions that lead to decisions Experience navigating organizational complexity — you've successfully led technical efforts where success depended not just on your team's execution, but on influencing and aligning with teams you don't directly control Strong systems design experience, particularly in architecting large-scale distributed systems involving event-driven architectures, data pipelines, or billing/financial systems Experience influencing company or org strategy at the intersection of business needs and technology — you measure your success in terms of business outcomes and team effectiveness, not just technical elegance A collaborative leadership style — you lead through influence, earn trust through reliability, and create an environment where teams across org boundaries want to work with you Demonstrated ability to mentor and invest in the development of engineers, with particular strength in coaching others on cross-functional effectiveness Preferred qualifications Prior experience in financial technology, particularly in billing systems, payment processing, pricing/packaging, or revenue operations Experience with internal dogfooding architectures — where you've used your own company's products to power internal operations and driven improvements from the inside out Experience building or evolving subscription management, usage-based billing, or entitlement systems Familiarity with the challenges of operating dual billing systems or migrating billing infrastructure between platforms Experience working in environments where multiple teams must co-deliver a single user-facing product

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