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Stripe

Software Engineer

South San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Chicago, IL Posted today $156,800 - $235,200/yr

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Skills this job asks for

Product managementAWSAzureGoogle CloudNetworkingRubyKubernetesMicroservices

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Sponsorship verdict

Sponsorship possible

One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.

  • Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 260 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
  • The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
  • No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
  • What Stripe paid sponsored hires in similar roles37 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $143k–$165k, median $157k.
  • Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
Details and sources
Employer is on a government sponsor record
The US Department of Labor certified 260 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
No salary bar for this route
H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
What Stripe paid sponsored hires in similar roles
37 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $143k–$165k, median $157k. Most were filed at wage level I (57%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).

US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).

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About the role

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. 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. What you’ll do Responsibilities • Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling process, and culture. • Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions. • Make appropriate tradeoffs between reliability throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity and cost. • Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute toward improvement in infrastructure, resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale. • Uphold the company’s high engineering standards and improve the overall codebase and processes. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus two (2) years of work experience in software development. Must also have two (2) years of experience in each of the following: • Designing and deploying scalable infrastructure within major public cloud environments, specifically using AWS, Azure, or GCP; • Cloud-native networking, compute instances (EC2), and storage solutions to support global, high-availability financial services; • Developing software in Go and Ruby to build and maintain robust distributed systems and internal tooling; • Writing clean, maintainable code to automate infrastructure management and develop the core services that power microservice architecture; • Kubernetes and containerization technologies to manage large-scale server fleets and microservices; • Designing orchestration strategies that ensure system reliability, efficient resource allocation and seamless deployments across a distributed environment; and • Designing, building, and debugging high-scale distributed systems using open-source tools, analyzing complex system architectures, identifying performance bottlenecks, and implementing data-driven optimizations that improve latency, resiliency, and cost-performance ratios. Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/yr. This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary. 40 hrs/week 50% Telecommuting permitted. Multiple Positions Available. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. CA64 #LI-DNI

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