Software Engineer, Internal Identity
Seattle, WAJobSeen 3w agoStill listed 3 days ago
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Stripe’s Internal Identity team builds infrastructure for secure authentication and authorization across the company. The team is developing authorization systems that model relationships among people, services, and resources, enforce policy consistently, and make secure access easier for teams. The engineer will own authorization problems end to end and collaborate across Stripe, with the team largely distributed and a small in-person presence in Seattle.
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Who we are About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team Stripe's mission depends on the trust of the businesses that run on us. Internal Identity builds the infrastructure that keeps access to Stripe's systems secure: strong authentication and authorization that stays out of people's way. We decide how every engineer, service, and AI agent at Stripe gets access to what it needs, and nothing more. We're building the next generation of authorization at Stripe. It reasons about how people, services, and resources relate to each other, and it enforces policy consistently everywhere. We’re actively making the secure path the easiest one for every team at Stripe. The technical challenges we’re solving include building systems with 99.999%+ availability, expanding authorization controls to model agents as first-class identities, and making authorization policy authorship more approachable. Engineers here own big problems end to end and work closely with teams across the company. Internal Identity is largely a distributed team with a small presence in-person in Seattle. What you'll do We’re looking for an engineer who is passionate about addressing tough problems in the authorization space. This role is critical, not only for Stripe, but for the future of the commercial internet. Responsibilities
- 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.
Who you are We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. Minimum requirements
- 2-5 years of professional hands-on software development experience
- Experience in the security domain
- Strong communication and cross-functional skills; drives clear next steps when there aren’t clear lines of ownership
- Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones; have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
- Good product sense; able to seek out requirements from dependent teams and align them with business needs
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in the identity and authorization domain
- Experience with Go, Java or Ruby
How this job compares
Set against the 8,458 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Washington median$168–252K/yr388 salary ranges
- Washington median$45–46/hr28 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 467 open Software Engineering jobs in Washington and 8,458 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 6,647 postings).
- Education
- 2,213 of the 8,458 open Software Engineering jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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