Staff IAM Platform Engineer – Access & Security

Stripe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Staff-level engineer for the IAM Control Plane in San Francisco. You will design, build, and maintain systems that control user access to Stripe products and data, empowering secure access for thousands of teams.

You’ll own backend services, model permissions, and collaborate with product and design to deliver scalable access solutions, with in-office expectations and strong growth potential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software development.
• Experience designing, building, and operating backend services.
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Go, Ruby or Java.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity with a product-minded approach.
• Collaborate across engineering, product and design teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build IAM primitives to securely power AI-driven experiences on Stripe.
• Develop new user-facing permission models and granular access controls.
• Architect and implement features like Account Groups for large orgs.
• Own and operate mission-critical backend services essential to Stripe users.
• Work across the stack from API design to frontend components.
• Mentor teammates and raise engineering standards.

Skills

10+ years software development

Go

Ruby

Java

React

TypeScript

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Staff-level engineer for the IAM Control Plane in San Francisco. You will design, build, and maintain systems that control user access to Stripe products and data, empowering secure access for thousands of teams.

You’ll own backend services, model permissions, and collaborate with product and design to deliver scalable access solutions, with in-office expectations and strong growth potential.