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 Compliance Platform team builds foundational infrastructure to enable Stripe to meet its compliance obligations. Our products make technology compliance at Stripe more sustainable, predictable, and scalable. We design, develop, and deploy a suite of internal compliance primitives known as the Stripe Compliance Stack. We collaborate closely with customers in Infrastructure and product engineering teams to incorporate the Compliance Stack into systems and processes. 

What you’ll do

You will join one of the teams behind infrastructure platforms used by engineering, security, and business partners at Stripe. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for implementation of high quality compliance automation systems and products that are reliable and prepared to scale with Stripe’s growth.

You will build solutions that may be “from scratch”, built on top of in-house platforms, or leveraging 3rd party solutions. We partner closely with internal infrastructure and security teams as well as compliance subject matter experts. We expect that working along the team’s technical leaders, you will be able to understand their needs and build software that best meets their needs.

We are a highly effective team, consistently delivering high-impact results while genuinely caring for each other. Our “compliance-as-code” platform accelerates Stripe’s ability to meet compliance requirements in current and future markets, enabling Stripe to be efficient and expand faster. 

We’re looking for engineers with a background in infrastructure or security, who are interested in delivering high performance infrastructure products to internal and external customers. We’d love to hear from you whether you’ve been working in infrastructure your whole career, or would like to try your skill set in a new-to-you compliance and security engineering domain.

Responsibilities As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, build and maintain systems and tooling for security and compliance of infrastructure environments Continuously increase the accuracy and reliability of data pipelines of compliance-related data Plan for growth of Stripe’s compliance platform infrastructure  Partner with other infrastructure and security teams to consume or design and implement APIs for security and compliance data Design and implement compliance testing APIs and frameworks driving efficiency and predictability Build a great customer experience for developers and business partners using your products 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 5+ years of engineering experience OR equivalent combined work experience reflecting domain expertise as relevant to this position  Experience in building infrastructure products centered around users’ needs A strong technical background gained through education or on-the-job experiences

Preferred qualifications

Interest in optimizing the reliability, security, and compliance of distributed systems Experience building frontends and owning the end-to-end user experience. Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to high level of psychological safety for all team members and partners Problem-solving skills, determination, and a growth mindset

It’s not expected that you’ll have deep expertise in every dimension above, but you should be interested in learning any of the areas that are less familiar.