Backend Engineer, Core Technology

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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 Organization

Secure Frameworks: We provide security guarantees for common threats, helping teams secure their services by default. We build and maintain core application-layer security libraries and frameworks for development teams, including web security frameworks, cryptography libraries, and other threat mitigations across the Stripe technology stack. More recently, our scope has expanded to protective measures for AI agents. We are a hands-on engineering team that builds security protections and frameworks, rather than conducting security reviews.

Core Infrastructure: We’re the home for Stripe's critical tier0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching and High assurance engineering). We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability, availability, efficiency and scalability of these systems.

Developer Infrastructure: We’re responsible for the productivity of all developers at Stripe. Ensure Stripe’s engineers have a reliable, fast, and easy-to-use inner dev loop to maximize productivity while building everything from low-latency microservices to large-scale data pipelines and machine learning models.

Reliability Insights and Excellence: We build tools and frameworks to introspe