Staff Identity Platform Engineer (Remote)

Software Careers; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer for Identity with a strong emphasis on architecture and platform leadership. You will own the technical direction of Identity core systems, including a headless API and fraud detection platform, and collaborate across ML, product, and legal teams to ensure robust, scalable identity solutions.

You will mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and drive reliability, security, and observability across services while maintaining a high bar for

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, including 5+ years in strategic technical leadership.
• Experience leading teams building API designs, abstractions, frameworks, or developer products.
• Proven track record delivering pragmatic solutions accelerating business growth.
• Clear and persuasive writing and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture for Identity's core systems (Identity Store, headless verification, fraud infrastructure).
• Lead net-new platform development including Identity Store and advanced fraud detection pipeline.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with ML, product, legal, and engineering leads.

Skills

API design

Platform leadership

Distributed systems

Ruby/TS stack

Python ML

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

Protobuf

React

SQL

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Staff Full Stack Engineer for Identity with a strong emphasis on architecture and platform leadership. You will own the technical direction of Identity core systems, including a headless API and fraud detection platform, and collaborate across ML, product, and legal teams to ensure robust, scalable identity solutions.

You will mentor engineers, raise engineering standards, and drive reliability, security, and observability across services while maintaining a high bar for