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Stripe

Technical Operations Engineer

South San Francisco, CA Posted today $137,000

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ComplianceGitRubyPythonSQLPostgreSQLMySQL

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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 roles2 certified filings for “Financial Data Analyst, Technical Operations” (Financial Quantitative Analysts) in CA: $162k–$162k, median $162k.
  • 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
2 certified filings for “Financial Data Analyst, Technical Operations” (Financial Quantitative Analysts) in CA: $162k–$162k, median $162k. Most were filed at wage level III (50%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% 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

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 • Become a domain expert in Connect and Risk and Compliance areas of Connect. • Handle inquiries from internal Stripes and external partners' technical teams with detailed investigation and sometimes code changes. • Organize and direct complex technical changes as part of product releases and merchant onboarding and migrations. • Identify and automate inefficient or unnecessary manual processes by making direct code changes, or coordinating more complex code changes across Stripe. • Design alerting systems using existing tools to respond to incidents quickly, or prevent them altogether. • Conduct data analysis to understand the impact of risk and compliance interventions on the users and surface future product opportunities. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information systems, Engineering, or a related field, plus 2 years of experience in Technical or technical user-facing roles. Must also have 2 years of experience in each of the following: • Developer tools including git; • Scripting and automation skills including Ruby and Python; • Writing tooling and automation, including testing and idempotency; • Observability tooling including metrics (Prometheus, Datadog), logging (LogScale), and distributed tracing (Honeycomb); • Incident response, on-call rotations, runbooks, and postmortem processes; and • Using SQL and relational databases including PostgreSQL or MySQL for operational tasks. Salary: $137,000.00 - $205,600.00 /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 100% 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. CA75 #LI-DNI

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