Key skills
PythonJavaC#C++CGoRubyRustAWSTerraformKubernetesEC2CommunicationRemote Work
About this role
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, seeking a Software Engineer for their Secrets Infrastructure team. The role involves building and maintaining cryptographic identity and secrets management systems that are critical for the operation of Stripe's services.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement significant features in our certificate authority and secrets management systems
- Work across Go, Java, Ruby, and Python to implement authentication and secrets infrastructure used by every service at Stripe
- Work with with other engineering teams to understand their needs and design secrets and identity integrations
- Develop certificate provisioning and secret management integrations for various compute platforms (Kubernetes, EC2, developer workstations)
- Work on reliability improvements to maintain 99.99%+ availability for critical infrastructure; we take pride in making failure modes impossible instead of reacting to them
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical infrastructure, working alongside senior engineers to debug and resolve production issues
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience. Strong programming skills in Go, with significant experience in other similar system programming languages (C++, Rust, C#, etc) as a potential alternative
- 3+ years of infrastructure and security experience (can overlap with other experience)
- Experience in cryptography, PKI, secret management, or other security topics
- Familiarity with infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud platforms
- Interest in security, infrastructure, and software development
- Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and working across multiple programming languages
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; the team maintains and troubleshoots integrations across all Stripe languages and infrastructure
- Clear verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with other engineers
- Experience leading cross-team projects and building alignment on multi-team technical direction
- Strong technical writing skills to write design documents
- On-call experience
- Prior experience building PKI or secret management infrastructure (as an SWE - not just provisioning a 3rd party tool or service)
- Experience in Java, Ruby, or Python
- Experience building developer tools, libraries, or platform services
- Experience with kubernetes internals (how the platform works, not just as a user)
- Experience operating complex services on AWS
- Experience in fully remote work environments