Jobs / United States / Stripe
Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Stripe · 🇺🇸 Seattle, WA
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. USCIS also records 64 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- 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. 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 roles62 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in WA: $129k–$212k, median $157k. Most were filed at wage level I (55%) — 1 lottery entry, ≈15% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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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Sponsor Radar — Stripe
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. USCIS also records 64 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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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 • Develop global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole. • Work on latency-critical, time-sensitive and data redundancy solutions. • Solve broad range of problems, including investigating Mongo write concerns, minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes, and develop new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers. • Enable the company to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection. • Write code, scope, design, implement, and deploy solutions using multiple technologies, including: Ruby, Java, Mongo, Postgres, and other necessary tools as required. • Investigate issues in live, distributed production systems. • Collaborate across the company to provide an understanding of multi-region architectures, high durability implementation patterns, and best practices. • Learn, meet, and uphold high engineering standards through design and code review. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor’s progressive software development work experience. In the alternative, the employer is willing to accept a Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus three (3) years of software development work experience. Must also have three (3) years of experience in each of the following: • Go, Ruby, or Java programming languages; • Database internals including data movement, leader election, and quorums; • Cloud infrastructure services, including: S3, EBS, EC2, and VPCs, to deploy scalable applications; • Designing and building Temporal workflows; • Using Trino SQL for data analysis and visualization; and • Designing fault-tolerant systems using data sharding and replication strategies. Salary: $206,086 - $285,600/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. WA70 #LI-DNI