Software Engineer, Internal Identity

at Stripe

📍 United States

USD 142,600-259,600 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Remote

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Details

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Internal Identity builds the infrastructure that keeps access to Stripe's systems secure through strong authentication and authorization.

The team is building the next generation of authorization at Stripe, including systems that model relationships between people, services, resources, and AI agents and enforce policy consistently. Technical challenges include building systems with 99.999%+ availability, expanding authorization controls to support agents as first-class identities, and making authorization policy authorship more approachable. Internal Identity is largely a distributed team with a small in-person presence in Seattle.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain reliable, performant, and scalable authorization infrastructure, including libraries, frameworks, and services.
Develop a comprehensive understanding of the authorization needs of users, including product and infrastructure teams.
Build comprehensive, easy-to-use, policy-driven authorization solutions.
Collaborate with users to adopt authorization solutions that protect their resources while providing a great user experience.
Build access visibility and continuous policy governance to empower resource owners, legal teams, and compliance teams to control the risk of inappropriate access.
Own large problems end to end and work closely with teams across the company.

Requirements

2–5 years of professional hands-on software development experience.
Experience in the security domain.
Strong communication and cross-functional skills, including the ability to drive clear next steps when ownership is unclear.
Preference for simple solutions and designs over complex ones, with good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
Good product sense and the ability to seek requirements from dependent teams and align them with business needs.