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# Software Engineer, Authorization Infrastructure

- **Company:** Stripe, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $156,800.0 - $235,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Software Quality, Ruby, Software Engineering, Stripe
- **Published:** July 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/software-engineer-authorization-infrastructure/8069941/apply

## About the Role

* 2-5 years of professional hands-on software development experience
 * Has experience in the security domain
 * Has a curious and learning mindset, regardless of level or experience
 * Has empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration
 * Works well cross-functionally and cross-team; and your co-workers at all levels trust you
 * Drives clear next steps when encountering ambiguous spaces without clear lines of ownership
 * Thinks creatively and holistically when solving problems
 * Prefers simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
 * High standards for code quality and a constructive attitude to help others raise the bar, * Experience in the authorization domain

## Description

Stripe will succeed at our mission of increasing the GDP of the internet only if we preserve Stripe users' trust. To achieve their trust, the team is building authorization infrastructure and a platform that ensures proper authorization for users and services. We enforce access controls and provide access observability and policy governance. We collaborate with teams across Stripe to adopt our authorization platform to protect their resources, especially Stripe users' data. Ultimately we ensure resources across Stripe are accessed securely and in compliance with policies, hence maintaining Stripe users' trust., * Build and maintain reliable, performant and scalable authorization infrastructure (e.g. libraries, frameworks, services).

 * Build comprehensive understanding of authorization needs of our users (e.g. product teams and infrastructure teams).
 * Build comprehensive, easy-to-use, and policy driven authorization solutions.
 * Collaborate with our users to adopt our authorization solutions to protect their resources by providing a great user experience.
 * Build access visibility and continuous policy governance to empower resource owners, legal and compliance to put risk of inappropriate access under control., Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.


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