Senior Software Engineer, Secrets & PKI Infrastructure

Stripe; Seattle, New York (WA, NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe’s Secrets Infrastructure team builds the cryptographic identity and secrets platform that powers every Stripe service. You will design and implement certificate authority and secret management features, and work across Go, Java, Ruby, and Python while guiding partner teams on architecture decisions.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations and collaborate to ensure 99.99%+ availability. Strong coding, security, and written communication are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of infrastructure and security experience.
• Experience in cryptography, PKI, secret management, or other security topics.
• Familiarity with infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud platforms.
• Interest in security, infrastructure, and software development.
• Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and working across multiple programming languages.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; the team maintains and troubleshoots integrations across all Stripe languages and infrastructure.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with other engineers.
• Experience leading cross-team projects and building alignment on multi-team technical direction.
• Strong technical writing skills to write design documents.
• On-call experience

Responsibilities

• Design and implement significant features in our certificate authority and secrets management systems
• Work across Go, Java, Ruby, and Python to implement authentication and secrets infrastructure used by every service at Stripe
• Work with with other engineering teams to understand their needs and design secrets and identity integrations
• Develop certificate provisioning and secret management integrations for various compute platforms (Kubernetes, EC2, developer workstations)
• Work on reliability improvements to maintain 99.99%+ availability for critical infrastructure; we take pride in making failure modes impossible instead of reacting to them
• Participate in on‑call rotation for critical infrastructure, working alongside senior engineers to debug and resolve production issues

Skills

Go

Security

Backend API development

Infrastructure

Cryptography

PKI

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud platforms

Cross-team leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Java

Ruby

Python

Go

Job description

Stripe’s Secrets Infrastructure team builds the cryptographic identity and secrets platform that powers every Stripe service. You will design and implement certificate authority and secret management features, and work across Go, Java, Ruby, and Python while guiding partner teams on architecture decisions.

You’ll participate in on-call rotations and collaborate to ensure 99.99%+ availability. Strong coding, security, and written communication are essential for success in this role.