Software Engineer, Optimized Checkout & Link - Stripe, LLC - South San Francisco, CA Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial…
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
Stripe will succeed at our mission of increasing the GDP of the internet only if we preserve Stripe users’ trust. To achieve their trust, the team is building authorization infrastructure and a platform that ensures proper authorization for users and services. We enforce access controls and provide access observability and policy governance. We collaborate with teams across Stripe to adopt our authorization platform to protect their resources, especially Stripe users’ data. Ultimately we ensure resources across Stripe are accessed securely and in compliance with policies, hence maintaining Stripe users’ trust.
What you’ll do
We’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.
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£45,000 – £60,000 (Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, 2025)
Stripe's culture is characterized by high standards, urgency, and a fast-paced environment, with a strong emphasis on user focus and meticulous craft. The company fosters deep, multifunctional collaboration and a writing-first approach to knowledge sharing. While employees generally appreciate the leadership and team quality, some reviews indicate challenges related to work-life balance due to the demanding nature of the work.
Perks
Salary range: £84,400 – £126,600 (Stripe Official Job Posting, May 2026)
Software Engineer, Optimized Checkout & Link - Stripe, LLC - South San Francisco, CA Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial…
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