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Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure

Stripe

Company websitestripe.com (Stripe, opens in new tab)

Base salary $206,086  to $285,600

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Seattle, WA

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  • LocationSeattle, WA
  • WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
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About this job

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

  • Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture. Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost. 
  • Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement in infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale. 
  • Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in Software development. 

Must also have 5 years of experience in each of the following:

  • Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
  • Building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs;
  • Scaling distributed systems;
  • Breaking down large complex systems;
  • Identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions;
  • Building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
  • Working in a development team in AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP; and
  • Programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.

Salary: $206,086.00 - $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 % 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. WA56

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Source: Stripe on Greenhouse · View original posting (opens in new tab)

This range next to 6 other live Stripe roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Stripe roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure (this listing)$206,086 - $285,600
Senior Software Engineer, Product Velocity$206,086 - $285,600
Senior Software Engineer, Backend$206,086 - $285,600
Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery$206,086 - $285,600
Software Engineer, Backend$206,086 - $285,600
Customer Success Manager, RFA$208,021 - $225,300
Capital Markets Investments$199,222 - $235,200

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Stripe roles · How to read the bar

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Employer-stated posting date
2026-09-11
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Location as the employer wrote it: Seattle, WA

Salary: $206,086.00 - $285,600.00/yr

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