The opportunity
The Secrets Infrastructure team provides the cryptographic identity and secrets management foundation for Stripe. We build and operate the internal certificate authority that authenticates every person and service at Stripe, and the secrets platform that manages everything from…
What you'll do
Design and implement significant features in our certificate authority and secrets management systems
Work across Go, Java, Ruby, and Python to implement authentication and: secrets infrastructure used by every service at Stripe
Work with with other engineering teams to understand their needs and design secrets and identity integrations
Develop certificate provisioning and secret management integrations for: various compute platforms (Kubernetes, EC2, developer workstations)
Work on reliability improvements to maintain 99.99%+ availability for: critical infrastructure; we take pride in making failure modes impossible instead of reacting to them
Participate in on-call rotation for critical infrastructure, working: alongside senior engineers to debug and resolve production issues
What they're looking for
- + years of professional software development experience. Strong programming: skills in Go, with significant experience in other similar system programming languages (C++, Rust, C#, etc) as a potential alternative.
- + years of infrastructure and security experience (can overlap with other experience)
- Experience in cryptography, PKI, secret management, or other security topics
- Familiarity with infrastructure tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud platforms
- Interest in security, infrastructure, and software development
- Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and working across multiple programming languages
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; the team maintains and: troubleshoots integrations across all Stripe languages and infrastructure
- Clear verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with other engineers
