Software Engineer

Stripe is hiring a Software Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $157k-$235k 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.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions AWS, Azure and Go among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a mid-level role.
Stripe has 720 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Design, build, and operate critical tier-0 backend services and scalable infrastructure at Stripe.

awsazuregopythonjavalinuxnosql

backenddistributed-systemsinfrastructuredeveloper-toolingcloud-computing

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

Design, build, and operate critical tier-0 backend services that must achieve 99.99%+ availability and handle security-sensitive data.
Responsible for improving developer tooling.
Design and implement robust, scalable infrastructure, participate in an on-call rotation, and collaborate with engineering teams across the company to plan and safely execute changes in production.
Set up and operate infrastructure that participates in decentralized distributed systems, including creating deploy pipelines for artifacts.
Build and harden custom Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) used to bootstrap EC2 instances, and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for these systems.
Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field, plus three (3) years of software engineering or related experience.

Must have three (3) years of experience in each of the following:

Cloud technologies, including AWS and Azure;
Go, Python or Java;
Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems;
Linux OS;
Metrics, alarms and dashboards;
NoSQL databases; and
Handling critical incidents for production systems.

Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/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% Telecommuting 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. WA61

#LI-DNI

How we rate this

Software Engineer at Stripe rates 0 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 $157k-$235k a year.
The role is based in Seattle, WA and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 2, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Stripe. Apply on Stripe

Prepare for this job

Built from this posting and from similar jobs on Level.

Skills and AI tools this role asks for

BackendDistributed SystemsInfrastructureDeveloper ToolingCloud ComputingAWSAzureGo

Also common in software engineer jobs at this level

C++Kubernetes TypeScript React Docker JavaScript

Pay

This job starts at: $157k
Typical software engineer job: $168k

This posting starts 7% below the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs

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Tell me about a project where backend was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
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Tell me about a project where developer tooling was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where cloud computing was part of your work. What did you do?

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List these exact terms on your resume: Backend, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure, Developer Tooling, and Cloud Computing. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.

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