Remote Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization

Stripe; United States; Remote; USD 143,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is hiring for an engineer to tackle tough problems in the authorization space. This role focuses on building scalable authorization infrastructure and policy-driven access controls, partnering with product and infrastructure teams to protect resources and improve user experiences.

The ideal candidate has security-domain experience and strong cross-functional communication, with a passion for solving complex authorization challenges at scale.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of professional hands-on software development experience.
• Experience in the security domain.
• Strong communication and cross-functional skills; drives clear next steps when ownership isn’t clear.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable, scalable authorization infrastructure (libraries, frameworks, services).
• Understand authorization needs of users (product and infrastructure teams).
• Develop policy-driven authorization solutions that are easy to use.
• Collaborate with users to adopt authorization solutions and protect resources with good UX.
• Provide access visibility and policy governance to empower owners and compliance.

Skills

Software development

Security domain experience

Cross-functional communication

Tools

Go

Java

Ruby

Job description

Stripe is hiring for an engineer to tackle tough problems in the authorization space. This role focuses on building scalable authorization infrastructure and policy-driven access controls, partnering with product and infrastructure teams to protect resources and improve user experiences.

The ideal candidate has security-domain experience and strong cross-functional communication, with a passion for solving complex authorization challenges at scale.