Software Engineer

Summary

Join Stripe's Secure Endpoint Access team as a Software Engineer and work at the intersection of security engineering, cloud infrastructure, and networking. You will design, build, and operate the core of Stripe's zero-trust infrastructure, scaling it to support a global workforce and remote development. Responsibilities include unifying legacy network flows, upholding engineering standards, contributing to team learning, optimizing for user-friendly security controls, and making impactful system and security decisions. This role requires 3+ years of software engineering experience, strong communication, a learning mindset, the ability to navigate ambiguity, high coding standards, experience in high-stakes production environments, and a knack for identifying and resolving system failures. Preferred qualifications include experience with Go, Terraform/Puppet, various networking protocols, Linux administration, and large-scale cloud networking architecture.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
• A learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
• The ability to drive clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership
• High standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar
• Software engineering experience in a high-stakes production environment
• A knack for considering how systems can fail and how to fix them
• An ability to think creatively and holistically about reducing risk in a complex environment

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the core of Stripe’s zero-trust infrastructure
• Scale and extend our infrastructure to support a global workforce
• Building infrastructure to support remote development in a zero-trust environment
• Unify legacy network flows to utilize our zero-trust infrastructure
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter
• Contribute to team learning by improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Optimize for security controls that have delightful user experiences
• Make impactful decisions about systems and security — their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing high performance networked applications in Go
• Deploying cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code Terraform, Puppet
• Understanding of networking protocols across various levels of the stack TCP, DNS, SSH, TLS, HTTP
• Linux system administration knowledge
• Architecting large scale cloud networking infrastructure