Software Engineer, Secrets Infrastructure

Monograph; United States; Remote; USD 141,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks a software engineer to contribute to vital security infrastructure projects. The role involves building and enhancing systems that manage authentication and secrets across services. Ideal candidates have a solid foundation in programming languages like Go, Java, Ruby, or Python and an interest in security. This is an excellent opportunity for a junior engineer looking to grow and take ownership of significant projects.

Benefits

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience.
• Interest in security, infrastructure, and software development.
• Enthusiasm for learning new technologies across multiple programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features for certificate authority and secrets management systems.
• Work across programming languages to implement authentication and secrets infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical infrastructure.

Skills

Strong programming skills in Go

Strong programming skills in Java

Strong programming skills in Ruby

Strong programming skills in Python

Debugging skills

Problem-solving skills

Effective communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

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

The Secrets Infrastructure team provides the cryptographic identity and secrets management foundation for Stripe. We build and operate the internal certificate authority that authenticates every person and service at Stripe, and the secrets platform that manages everything from financial partner credentials to infrastructure access keys.

We build foundational security infrastructure at scale: our certificate authority issues identities for thousands of services and engineers, and our secrets platform and libraries protect access to critical financial systems and external partners across all of Stripe’s codebases, services, and platforms. The technical challenges include building systems with 99.99%+ availability, implementing workload identity for new platforms, and designing secret management tools that are both secure and user-friendly. Our infrastructure must be both reliable and developer-friendly—we maintain libraries in Go, Java, Ruby, and Python. As a small team responsible for critical systems, engineers take on meaningful ownership early and work alongside senior engineers who have deep expertise. Through collaboration with teams across Stripe, you'll develop a comprehensive understanding of how authentication and secrets management underpin distributed systems at scale.

Secrets Infrastructure is a fully remote team, with a small presence in the San Francisco and New York City offices. We pride ourselves on a friendly, technically rigorous, and supportive team culture.

What you’ll do

You'll contribute to critical infrastructure that every engineer and service at Stripe depends on. Your projects might include extending our certificate authority to support new types of workload identity, building features in our secrets platform that eliminate entire classes of security risks, or designing APIs that make secure practices the easiest path for developers. Each project offers the opportunity to see your work deployed across Stripe's entire infrastructure.

Working closely with senior engineers, you'll participate in the full engineering lifecycle: from initial design through implementation, testing, deployment, and long-term maintenance. All engineers on this team own projects from design through implementation, with support from senior engineers. You'll engage with teams across Stripe to understand their security infrastructure needs and help them adopt our solutions. As you grow in the role, you'll take on increasing ownership of components within our systems, contribute to technical strategy, and help shape how Stripe approaches authentication and secrets management.

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
  

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. We’re looking for a relatively junior candidate who’s interested in growing in this role.

Minimum requirements

• 2+ years of professional software development experience. Strong programming skills in at least one of: Go, Java, Ruby, or Python. Strong experience in other similar system programming languages is a potential alternative.
  
• Interest in security, infrastructure, and software development
  
• Ability to work effectively with engineers across different teams and communicate technical concepts clearly
  
• 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 communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with other engineers
  
• Strong technical writing skills to write design documents
  

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience with Go is helpful - the key services we run are in Go
  
• Experience with or coursework in cryptography, PKI, or other security topics
  
• Familiarity with infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud platforms
  
• Experience building developer tools, libraries, or platform services
  
• Background in systems programming or infrastructure development
  
• Prior experience in fully remote work environments
  

A remote location, in most cases, 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 or plan to live.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $141,500 - $212,300. 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.

Remote locations

Remote in United States

Team

Security

Job type

Full time

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