[Remote] Software Engineer, Secrets Infrastructure

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, and they are seeking a Software Engineer for their Secrets Infrastructure team. The role involves designing and implementing significant features in the certificate authority and secrets management systems, ensuring that every Stripe service depends on a reliable and secure infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement significant features in our certificate authority and secrets management systems
• Work across Go, Java, Ruby, and Python to implement authentication and secrets infrastructure used by every service at Stripe
• Work with with other engineering teams to understand their needs and design secrets and identity integrations
• Develop certificate provisioning and secret management integrations for various compute platforms (Kubernetes, EC2, developer workstations)
• Work on reliability improvements to maintain 99.99%+ availability for critical infrastructure; we take pride in making failure modes impossible instead of reacting to them
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical infrastructure, working alongside senior engineers to debug and resolve production issues

Skills

• 5+ years of professional software development experience. Strong programming skills in Go, with significant experience in other similar system programming languages (C++, Rust, C#, etc) as a potential alternative
• 3+ years of infrastructure and security experience (can overlap with other experience)
• Experience in cryptography, PKI, secret management, or other security topics
• Familiarity with infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud platforms
• Interest in security, infrastructure, and software development
• Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and working across multiple programming languages
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; the team maintains and troubleshoots integrations across all Stripe languages and infrastructure
• Clear verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with other engineers
• Experience leading cross-team projects and building alignment on multi-team technical direction
• Strong technical writing skills to write design documents
• On-call experience
• Prior experience building PKI or secret management infrastructure (as an SWE - not just provisioning a 3rd party tool or service)
• Experience in Java, Ruby, or Python
• Experience building developer tools, libraries, or platform services
• Experience with kubernetes internals (how the platform works, not just as a user)
• Experience operating complex services on AWS
• Experience in fully remote work environments

Benefits

• Equity
• Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Wellness stipends

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