Staff Software Engineer, Radar

Stripe; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k)

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe Radar software engineer role on the Radar team. Build products and infrastructure to detect fraud and abuse, spanning backend services, enterprise APIs, and user experiences.

You’ll own problems from investigation through launch and scale real-time decisions across Stripe's payments network. Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and ML engineers to bring new signals into production, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and user trust in fintech.

Qualifications

• 10+ years backend and/or full-stack development experience.
• Strong coding skills in any language with production software experience.
• Experience leading design and delivery of large, complex software projects end-to-end.
• Experience guiding engineers on substantial projects as a senior IC.
• Hands-on coding as a senior IC leader in the last year.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar codebases and make thoughtful technical trade-offs.
• Comfort operating in high-ambiguity environments with durable decisions.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration across teams and systems.
• Understanding of basic data science concepts like linear models, precision, recall.
• Experience building consumer products at scale with high user trust.
• Experience working with fast-moving customers and leading upsell calls.
• Track record of collaborating with data science and ML teams; 0→1 product experience; fintech/payments exposure.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate reliable, low-latency services that detect and prevent fraud and abuse at scale.
• Design APIs and dashboard experiences that help businesses investigate threats and configure defenses.
• Develop the shared platform and infrastructure for Radar capabilities.
• Work directly with users to understand emerging threats and translate insights into products.
• Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to bring new signals into production.
• Own projects end to end from design through rollout, measurement, and iteration.
• Maintain a high bar for engineering quality, reliability, and product craft while moving quickly.

Skills

Backend development

Full-stack development

Leadership / mentorship

Product and project ownership

Ambiguity navigation

Cross-functional collaboration

ML awareness / data science concepts

Consumer product experience at scale

Upsell experience with fast customers

Tools

Java

Ruby

TypeScript

Job description

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.

Who we are

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

Radar helps businesses prevent payments fraud and abuse while enabling legitimate customers to transact with confidence. We combine machine learning and AI with the intelligence of Stripe’s global network to make sophisticated fraud prevention accessible to businesses of all sizes.

Our work spans payments fraud detection, protection against abuse beyond the payment, enterprise APIs that bring Radar’s capabilities into businesses’ own systems and payment flows, and the platform that powers it all. We build everything from reliable, low-latency infrastructure to intuitive tools that help users understand threats and control how they respond.

Fraud evolves constantly, and so do we. We work directly with users to understand emerging attacks, turn advances in ML and AI into effective defenses, and build products that protect and grow their revenue.

What you’ll do

As a software engineer on Radar, you’ll build products and infrastructure that help businesses understand and stop fraud and abuse. Your work will span backend services, enterprise APIs, and user experiences that put sophisticated prevention capabilities into our customers’ hands.

You’ll own problems from investigation through launch, partnering with product managers, designers, and data scientists. You’ll have opportunities to scale systems that make real-time decisions across Stripe’s global payments network, bring advances in ML and AI into production, and build new products from scratch. Every improvement can have a direct impact on the revenue our users retain and the legitimate customers they serve.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate reliable, low-latency services that detect and prevent fraud and abuse at scale
• Design APIs and dashboard experiences that help businesses investigate threats, configure defenses, and understand how Radar protects them
• Develop the shared platform and infrastructure that enable teams to build and launch new Radar capabilities
• Work directly with users to understand emerging threats and turn those insights into broadly useful products
• Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to bring new signals, models, and AI capabilities into production
• Own projects end to end, from technical design and implementation through rollout, measurement, and iteration
• Uphold a high bar for engineering quality, reliability, and product craft while moving quickly as threats evolve

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

• 10+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience, with a track record of owning large, ambiguous systems end-to-end.
• Strong coding skills in any programming language, with experience building and maintaining production software
• Demonstrated technical experience leading the design and delivery of large, complex software projects from early definition through production launch.
• Experience leading and unblocking a group of engineers on a substantial project as a senior individual contributor.
• Significant hands‑on coding as a senior IC leader in the last year.
• Ability to work across systems and technologies, learn unfamiliar codebases, and make thoughtful technical trade‑offs
• Ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments: framing problems, making durable technical decisions, and creating an actionable path forward.
• Excellent cross‑functional and cross‑organizational collaboration skills, with the ability to align teams with different systems, priorities, and constraints.
• Understanding of basic data science concepts, like linear models, precision, recall, and more
• Experience building consumer products at scale, particularly products that require a high degree of user trust.
• Experience working closely with fast customers, including leading upsell calls

Preferred Qualifications

• Track record of working closely with data science and ML teams to ship products to users
• Experience working on 0→1 products or taking new capabilities from concept through launch and iteration.
• Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript. We care more about strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn than expertise in a particular language or framework.
• Experience building payments, money‑movement, fintech, or other regulated financial products.
• Experience building consumer products at scale, particularly products that require a high degree of user trust.
• Familiarity with stablecoins, digital assets, or the infrastructure that enables global financial products.

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In‑office expectations

Office‑assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in‑person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

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 $224,000 - $336,000. 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.