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 teamStripe's mission depends on the trust of the businesses that run on us. Internal Identity builds the infrastructure that keeps access to Stripe's systems secure: strong authentication and authorization that stays out of people's way. We decide how every engineer, service, and AI agent at Stripe gets access to what it needs, and nothing more.
We're building the next generation of authorization at Stripe. It reasons about how people, services, and resources relate to each other, and it enforces policy consistently everywhere. We’re actively making the secure path the easiest one for every team at Stripe. The technical challenges we’re solving include building systems with 99.999%+ availability, expanding authorization controls to model agents as first-class identities, and making authorization policy authorship more approachable. Engineers here own big problems end to end and work closely with teams across the company.
Internal Identity is largely a distributed team with a small presence in-person in Seattle.
What you'll doWe’re looking for an engineer who is passionate about addressing tough problems in the authorization space. This role is critical, not only for Stripe, but for the future of the commercial internet.
Responsibilities- Build and maintain reliable, performant and scalable authorization infrastructure (e.g. libraries, frameworks, services).
- Build comprehensive understanding of authorization needs of our users (e.g. product teams and infrastructure teams).
- Build comprehensive, easy-to-use, and policy driven authorization solutions.
- Collaborate with our users to adopt our authorization solutions to protect their resources by providing a great user experience.
- Build access visibility and continuous policy governance to empower resource owners, legal and compliance to put risk of inappropriate access under control.
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- 2-5 years of professional hands-on software development experience
- Experience in the security domain
- Strong communication and cross-functional skills; drives clear next steps when there aren’t clear lines of ownership
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones; have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
- Good product sense; able to seek out requirements from dependent teams and align them with business needs
- Experience in the identity and authorization domain
- Experience with Go, Java or Ruby
Skills Required
- 2-5 years of professional hands-on software development experience
- Experience in the security domain
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to develop simple, scalable, and durable solutions
- Good product sense and ability to gather requirements and align them with business needs
- Experience in identity and authorization
- Experience with Go, Java, or Ruby
Stripe Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stripe and has not been reviewed or approved by Stripe.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, EAP, and mental‑health support such as therapy sessions; wellness resources are consistently highlighted across materials. Coverage breadth and depth are repeatedly positioned as a core strength.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave for birthing and non‑birthing parents, fertility benefits, and adoption assistance are emphasized, making family support a standout element. Feedback suggests these programs compare favorably to common tech benchmarks.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness stipends, gym reimbursement, and onsite meals/snacks (where available) are commonly offered, with flexible lifestyle funds supporting varied needs globally. Education stipends and similar perks further bolster day‑to‑day wellbeing.
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What We Do
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook—use the company’s software to accept online payments and run technically sophisticated financial operations in more than 100 countries. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Over the long term, Stripe aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
