Staff Full Stack Engineer, Identity

Stripe
Seattle, San Francisco, New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving"]

Staff Engineer on Stripe’s Identity team drives the technical direction for a critical product area, shaping architecture for Identity Store, headless verification, and fraud infrastructure. You’ll lead platform development, guide cross-functional alignment with ML and product teams, raise engineering standards, mentor engineers, and own reliability, scalability, and security in a high-stakes, externally-facing system.

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2 months ago

Staff Full Stack Engineer, Identity

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Job Summary

Staff Engineer on Stripe’s Identity team drives the technical direction for a critical product area, shaping architecture for Identity Store, headless verification, and fraud infrastructure. You’ll lead platform development, guide cross-functional alignment with ML and product teams, raise engineering standards, mentor engineers, and own reliability, scalability, and security in a high-stakes, externally-facing system.
Location: Seattle, San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own technical strategy — Define the architecture for Identity's core systems (Identity Store, headless verification platform, fraud detection infrastructure), make build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions, and surface technical risks before they become customer-facing failures.
  • •Lead 0-1 platform development — Architect net-new systems including the Identity Store, Networked Identity platform, and advanced fraud detection pipeline (behavioral biometrics, deepfake discriminators, adversarial training). Drive the evolution from a hosted-UI product to a headless-API and embedded-components platform.
  • •Drive cross-functional alignment — Be the primary technical voice in roadmap and resourcing discussions. Partner with ML, product, legal, and engineering leads across Risk, Fraud, Link, Connect, and Crypto to ensure Identity's abstractions serve the full breadth of Stripe's product surface.
  • •Raise the technical bar — Set engineering standards across ML, backend, mobile, and front-end; lead design reviews; and mentor senior engineers on the judgment needed to operate a high-stakes, externally-facing product.
  • •Operate with ownership — Be accountable for reliability, scalability, and security of the systems you design — including observability and alerting that catch model drift and fraud pattern shifts before customers do.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
  • •Experience leading engineering teams working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g. building internal or external developer products).
  • •Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth.
  • •Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding and take ownership.
  • •Strong writing and verbal communication skills; comfortable working autonomously in a high-responsibility environment.
Experience:IdentityFraudRiskSecurityFintech
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RubyTypescriptPythonScalaJavaGoSQLReactGraphQLKafkaProtobufAirflowBazelTemporalMongoSplunkPrometheus

Company Brief

Stripe
Provides payment processing APIs and financial infrastructure for internet businesses. Powers online payments for millions of companies from startups to Fortune 500s.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2010
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