Staff Engineer – Identity

🕒 May 7

🏄 California, New York – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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Stripe

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

💳 Fintech

🛍️ eCommerce

🤝 B2B

💰 Venture Round on 2021-05

Fintech • eCommerce • B2B

Stripe is a global payments processing platform that enables businesses to accept online and in-person payments. It offers a comprehensive suite of financial services, including payment processing, billing, and revenue management tools, aimed at businesses of all sizes, from startups to enterprises. By providing a developer-friendly API, Stripe allows businesses to streamline their payment operations and embed financial services directly into their applications, facilitating both B2B and B2C transactions.

📋 Description

• Own technical strategy — Define the architecture for Identity's core systems (Identity Store, headless verification platform, fraud detection infrastructure), make build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions, and surface technical risks before they become customer-facing failures • Lead 0-1 platform development — Architect net-new systems including the Identity Store, Networked Identity platform, and advanced fraud detection pipeline (behavioral biometrics, deepfake discriminators, adversarial training). Drive the evolution from a hosted-UI product to a headless-API and embedded-components platform • Drive cross-functional alignment — Be the primary technical voice in roadmap and resourcing discussions. Partner with ML, product, legal, and engineering leads across Risk, Fraud, Link, Connect, and Crypto to ensure Identity's abstractions serve the full breadth of Stripe's product surface • Raise the technical bar — Set engineering standards across ML, backend, mobile, and front-end; lead design reviews; and mentor senior engineers on the judgment needed to operate a high-stakes, externally-facing product • Operate with ownership — Be accountable for reliability, scalability, and security of the systems you design — including the observability and alerting that catch model drift and fraud pattern shifts before customers do

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years of experience in a strategic technical leadership role. • Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g. building internal or external developer products). • Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth. • Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding. • Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility. • Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication. • Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset. • Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to high level of psychological safety for all team members and partner. • Has experience in a range of software languages and frameworks. Examples of what we work with include: • Languages: primarily Ruby and Typescript, but also Python, Scala, Java, Go, and SQL (Spark and Trino dialects) • Frameworks: React, GraphQL Kafka, Protobuf, Airflow, Bazel, Temporal, • Others: Mongo, Splunk, Prometheus

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Professional development opportunities