Software Engineer, Internal Identity

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

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe 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.

About the team

Stripe's mission depends on the trust of the businesses that run on us. Internal Identity builds the infrastructure that keeps access to Stripe's systems secure: strong authentication and authorization that stays out of people's way. We decide how every engineer, service, and AI agent at Stripe gets access to what it needs, and nothing more.

We're building the next generation of authorization at Stripe. It reasons about how people, services, and resources relate to each other, and it enforces policy consistently everywhere. We’re actively making the secure path the easiest one for every team at Stripe. The technical challenges we’re solving include building systems with 99.999%+ availability, expanding authorization controls to model agents as first‑class identities, and making authorization policy authorship more approachable. Engineers here own big problems end to end and work closely with teams across the company.

Internal Identity is largely a distributed team with a small presence in‑person in Seattle.

What you'll do

We’re looking for an engineer who is passionate about addressing tough problems in the authorization space. This role is critical, not only for Stripe, but for the future of the commercial internet.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reliable, performant and scalable authorization infrastructure (e.g. libraries, frameworks, services).
• Build comprehensive understanding of authorization needs of our users (e.g. product teams and infrastructure teams).
• Build comprehensive, easy‑to‑use, and policy driven authorization solutions.
• Collaborate with our users to adopt our authorization solutions to protect their resources by providing a great user experience.
• Build access visibility and continuous policy governance to empower resource owners, legal and compliance to put risk of inappropriate access under control.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 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 there aren’t clear lines of ownership
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones; have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
• Good product sense; able to seek out requirements from dependent teams and align them with business needs

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in the identity and authorization domain
• Experience with Go, Java or Ruby

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on‑sites, meet‑ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $142,600 - $259,600. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

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.

We look forward to hearing from you.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.

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