Staff Software Engineer, IAM Control Plane

at Stripe

📍 Toronto, Canada
📍 South San Francisco, United States
📍 Seattle, United States

USD 224,000-336,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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AI @ 4 API Distributed Systems @ 6 Go @ 6 Java @ 6 Mentoring @ 4 Payments React @ 3 Ruby @ 6 Software Development @ 8 Technical Leadership TypeScript @ 3

Details

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. The mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and put the global economy within everyone’s reach.

About the Team

The IAM Control Plane team’s mission is to empower Stripe users to easily and securely manage their access to Stripe products and data. As part of Stripe's Organizations and Auth Platform, the team owns the platform for API keys, user roles, and access auditing, ensuring the right people have access to the right resources. The team has around 10 engineers and combines deep platform work with direct product impact.

Responsibilities

Design and build the next generation of IAM primitives to securely power AI-driven agentic experiences on Stripe.
Develop new user-facing permission models, including custom roles and granular access controls.
Architect and implement platform features such as Account Groups to simplify access management for large organizations.
Own and operate mission-critical, highly available backend services that are fundamental to every Stripe user's experience.
Work across the stack to ship end-to-end features, from API design and database modeling to frontend components.
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
Mentor team members and support their professional growth and technical leadership development.
Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and design teams to define product strategy and user experience.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

Staff-level experience, targeting 10+ years in software development.
A high bar for engineering quality and a passion for building resilient, scalable distributed systems.
Experience designing, building, and operating backend services in a professional environment.
Ability to navigate ambiguity and solve complex problems with a product-minded approach.
Proficiency in a modern backend language such as Go, Ruby, Java, or a similar language.
Experience mentoring engineers at all levels.
Ability to collaborate with engineering, product, and design teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM), authentication, or authorization systems.
Familiarity with frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript.
Experience working on developer platforms or infrastructure.