Software Engineer, Resource Automation

Stripe is hiring a Software Engineer, Resource Automation 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.
The posting lists this role as remote.
Tools and skills the posting cites include Go, Docker and Kubernetes.
Level lists 720 other open roles at Stripe.
The role was posted within the past week.

AI in this role

Design and maintain backend services and resource automation tooling for internal infrastructure.

godockerkubernetesawsgcpazuregrpcpostgresql

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, implement, test, deploy, and maintain backend services that support internal infrastructure and microservice operations.
Develop automation and tooling that streamlines resource provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows for internal engineering teams.
Produce and review technical designs; evaluate tradeoffs across reliability, latency, throughput, resiliency, cost, and engineering velocity.
Improve service operability by implementing monitoring/alerting, participating in on-call support as applicable, performing root-cause analysis, and addressing recurring failure modes.
Uphold engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, testing practices, and iterative improvements to existing services and systems.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field, plus 2 years of related work experience in software engineering.

Must also have 2 years of experience in each of the following:

Backend development in Go, including building production services and writing automated tests;
Distributed systems and microservices, and designing and implementing service APIs, including HTTP/REST or gRPC;
Deploying and operating services using common cloud primitives computing, networking, and storage in cloud environments including AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI;
Containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes and operating containerized services in production; and
Observability and production troubleshooting, including using logs, metrics, and tracing to diagnose issues in Linux-based environments.

Salary: $156,800.00 - $235,200.00/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% 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. CA73

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How we rate this

Software Engineer, Resource Automation 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, Resource Automation 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 South San Francisco, CA and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 22, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Stripe. Apply on Stripe

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

GoDockerKubernetesAWSGoogle CloudAzureGrpcPostgreSQL

Also common in software engineer jobs at this level

Python Java C++TypeScript React 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

Questions you could be asked

What's a project where you used Go hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Docker in your day-to-day work.
What are the limits of Kubernetes that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
What's a project where you used AWS hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Google Cloud in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: Go, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and Google Cloud. 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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