Software Engineer

Stripe is hiring a Software Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $190k-$286k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Stripe.

Level's read on this job

On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
Pay on this posting starts 13% higher than the typical software engineer posting on Level.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions AWS, Terraform and Go among its tools and skills.
Stripe has 720 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Build infrastructure, tooling, and distributed systems to manage data center networks and compliance environments.

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Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe, LLC. 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.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

Conducting technical interviews;
Creating software, tooling and distributed systems for automating and managing data center network hardware and compute stacks;
Creating and operating shared infrastructure for Stripe’s Cardholder data environment;
Deployment tooling;
SOX compliance audit prep interviews, and remediations;
PCI compliance audit prep, interviews, and remediations;
Project management;
Mentoring junior engineers;
On-call responsibilities.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, plus two (2) years of Software Development experience. Position also requires the following:

2 years of experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and Terraform infrastructure automation;
2 years of experience with reliability, scalability, and distributed systems principles;
1 year of experience in Go and Ansible programming languages;
1 year of experience in Puppet host configuration;
1 year of experience in Ruby programming language;
1 year of experience in Python programming language;
1 year of experience in mentorship and leadership of junior software engineers;
1 year of experience performing 24/7 on call rotations to support high-availability software systems;
1 year of experience with monitoring and logging tools;
1 year of experience with computer network concepts;
1 year of experience in the knowledge of Linux operating system and subsystems;
1 year of experience with cloud and application security best practices; and
1 year of experience with PCI compliance monitoring, audit processes, and evidence collection.

Salary: $190,400.00 - $285,600.00/yr

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% remote work permitted

Multiple Positions Available.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA67

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How we rate this

Software Engineer at Stripe rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Software Engineer is an open job at Stripe.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $190k-$286k a year.
The role is based in Seattle, WA and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 9, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Stripe. Apply on Stripe

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsCloud InfrastructureSecurity ComplianceAWSTerraformGoAnsible

Also common in software engineer jobs at this level

Java C++Kubernetes TypeScript React Azure

Pay

This job starts at: $190k
Typical software engineer job: $168k

This posting starts 13% above the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs

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Tell me about a project where security compliance was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used AWS in your day-to-day work.

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