Software Engineer

The job

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Job description

Who we are

About Stripe 

Stripe, LLC. 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.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling process, and culture. 
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions. 
• Make appropriate tradeoffs between reliability throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity and cost. 
• Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute toward improvement in infrastructure, resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale. 
• Uphold the company’s high engineering standards and improve the overall codebase and processes.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus two (2) years of work experience in software development.

Must also have two (2) years of experience in each of the following:

• Designing and deploying scalable infrastructure within major public cloud environments, specifically using AWS, Azure, or GCP;
• Cloud-native networking, compute instances (EC2), and storage solutions to support global, high-availability financial services;
• Developing software in Go and Ruby to build and maintain robust distributed systems and internal tooling;
• Writing clean, maintainable code to automate infrastructure management and develop the core services that power microservice architecture;
• Kubernetes and containerization technologies to manage large-scale server fleets and microservices;
• Designing orchestration strategies that ensure system reliability, efficient resource allocation and seamless deployments across a distributed environment; and
• Designing, building, and debugging high-scale distributed systems using open-source tools, analyzing complex system architectures, identifying performance bottlenecks, and implementing data-driven optimizations that improve latency, resiliency, and cost-performance ratios.

Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/yr. 

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting permitted.

Multiple Positions Available. 

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. CA64

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The job is in South San Francisco, CA. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How South San Francisco compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, South San Francisco is #123 by population, #118 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #38 for household income (#1 = highest), #48 for long commutes (#1 = fewest). Its county, San Mateo County, is #2 of 58 counties for average pay ($196,441).

The place in numbers

South San Francisco has 64,305 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.2% of the population of California. It covers 9 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 6,987 people per square mile. The median age is 43.2, 14% older than the state median (43.2 against 37.9).

Housing

The median gross rent is $2,802 a month (rent plus utilities), 38% above the state median ($2,802 against $2,036). Over a year that is 24.6% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $1,188,800, which is 8.7 times the median household income ($136,578); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 59.0% of households own their home, 6% above the state average (59.0% against 55.9%).

Work and pay

The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan area has 2,373,920 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $74,260 a year, 46% above the national median ($74,260 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (226,320 jobs, median $62,120); management (223,100 jobs, median $176,340); business and financial operations (207,030 jobs, median $112,960). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.9 times) and life, physical, and social science (1.8 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($176,340) and computer and mathematical ($167,770). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of San Mateo County was 3.9%. 67.0% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in San Mateo County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 61.4% drive alone, 5.5% use public transit, 1.9% walk, 17.4% work from home. 15.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 21% below the state average (15.2% against 19.4%).

People and education

40.8% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 10% above the state share (40.8% against 37.1%). 40.1% of residents were born outside the United States, 49% above the state share (40.1% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 6.7%, 44% below the state rate (6.7% against 12.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Sep, averaging 61°F (16.0°C), and the coolest is Jan at 51°F (10.7°C). About 515 mm (20 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (115 mm) and Jul the driest (2 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Brisbane (1 miles, rent 8% lower); San Bruno (4 miles, similar rent); Millbrae (4 miles, rent 17% higher); Burlingame (5 miles, similar rent). Rent differences are against South San Francisco; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Official links for South San Francisco

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Median rent in South San Francisco is $2,802 a month and median household income $136,578 (ACS 2020–2024).

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• Wages and projections: BLS OEWS (May 2025) and Employment Projections 2025–35.
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