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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 The Fraud Architect team helps Stripe’s largest and most complex users manage fraud and abuse across the customer lifecycle. We combine deep fraud expertise, technical investigation, and product knowledge to help users understand emerging threats, optimize Radar, and implement durable prevention strategies tailored to their business and risk tolerance. Our goal is to enable users’ growth by proactively reducing fraud while protecting legitimate customer activity and turning frontline insights into better products and defenses. What you’ll do Stripe users face fraud and abuse across the customer lifecycle, including payment fraud, free-trial farming, multi-account abuse, and usage-based billing exploitation. They need a partner who understands their business, anticipates emerging threats, and helps them put effective protections in place as their business and the threat landscape evolve. As a member of our Fraud Architect team, you’ll be the fraud and risk specialist embedded in strategic user relationships for a small portfolio of named users, acting as a technical extension of their teams. You’ll help users get more from Radar, build a proactive prevention strategy, and turn complex fraud problems into practical decisions. This role combines analytical rigor, deep fraud investigation, and product judgment. You’ll develop a deep understanding of how Radar scores and classifies transactions, how integrations and available signals affect its d

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 The Finance Operations (FinOps) team is Stripe’s global backbone, dedicated to delivering and continuously improving essential business services—billing and collections, procurement, monetization, payroll, and travel and expenses. We drive company value through data-driven insights, operational rigor, and a relentless focus on excellence. As strategic partners, we shape business decisions, champion technology-enabled solutions, own operational strategy, and collaborate across global functions to enable Stripe’s growth. The Monetization and Contract Success (MACS) team sits within Monetization Services and helps Stripe execute complex commercial agreements efficiently and accurately. The team partners across the deal and contract lifecycle to reduce friction, improve deal velocity, support scalable commercial constructs, and deliver a seamless user experience after contract execution. What you’ll do We’re looking for a Monetization and Contract Success (MACS) Specialist to join our growing team. In this high-impact role, you will guide complex commercial agreements through pre-signature review from a supportability lens - helping ensure that contractual terms are clear, operationally feasible, and can be accurately implemented in Stripe’s systems. You will work closely with cross-functional partners to resolve issues, strengthen controls, improve workflows, and develop scalable solutions that increase deal-cycle efficiency and reduce down

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and create new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. About the team Stripe’s ecosystem enables third-party developers and technology partners to extend products such as Payments, Billing, Tax, Checkout, and Workflows. The Ecosystem team builds the Stripe Apps Marketplace and the distribution, platform, and incentive systems that connect businesses with valuable third-party solutions. Our goal is to create a compounding ecosystem: better distribution generates merchant demand and stronger partner returns; those returns attract more high-quality apps; and those apps broaden Stripe’s product fit and value to users. What you’ll do We’re looking for an Ecosystem Product Lead to own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for Stripe’s third-party app ecosystem, including the Stripe Apps Marketplace. You will lead both sides of the ecosystem: helping businesses discover and adopt trusted solutions, while enabling developers and partners to build successful products on Stripe. You will determine where Stripe should expand ecosystem coverage, improve the merchant journey from discovery through ongoing usage, and establish the product and operating foundations for a high-quality marketplace. Responsibilities Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for Stripe’s third-party app ecosystem and Marketplace. Define the highest-value merchant needs and ecosystem gaps by product, segment, industry, and geography; determine when Stripe should build, partner, or enable third parties to address them. Improve the merchant funnel from discovery and evaluation through installation, activation, usage, and retention. Expand distribution beyond the Marketplace by surfacing relevant apps across Stripe’s product workflows, onboarding, Das

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 Tax team helps ensure that Stripe’s products comply with applicable tax requirements. We partner with product teams to understand Stripe’s products, evolving product strategy, and desired business outcomes. We develop tax approaches that support those goals while maintaining tax integrity. We provide tax requirements to cross-functional partners and help ensure they’re implemented. We also identify process gaps and support finance operations across several functions. What you’ll do We’re looking for an experienced tax professional to focus on products developed by Stripe. You’ll help scale Stripe’s tax processes as we grow in a fast-paced environment. You’ll assess the tax implications of Stripe’s products and initiatives, then partner with cross-functional teams to develop and implement effective solutions that meet Stripe’s tax obligations. Responsibilities Serve as the primary tax contact for end-to-end product launch readiness, partnering with cross-functional teams on tax issues related to Stripe products Identify and assess tax issues associated with product launches, including indirect tax, information reporting, transfer pricing, and income tax, and work with tax subject matter experts to provide clear requirements to product teams Help draft and implement tax policies and procedures that affect product operations, keeping them current as tax laws change Support internal user-facing teams, including Account Management, S

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 SMB Solutions Architecture (SA) team works with technical and business leaders (CTO/ CIO/ CEO/ Founders etc.), payments leaders and product engineering teams in the mid-market segment to evangelize Stripe’s solutions in the market. A solutions architect’s role is to build relationships with decision makers and think strategically about the business needs of Stripe’s customers. Solution Architects identify and propose Stripe solutions to solve complex business challenges and drive growth for our customers. SAs establish and prescribe best practices around a customer’s strategy, provide business and technical thought leadership and are viewed as a trusted advisor. They work on scaling business processes aligned to maximizing account coverage while working closely with customer and partner resources to deliver a solution that can be adopted quickly. What you’ll do As a member of the team, the Solutions Architect will build highly consultative trusted relationships with c-level executives and technical decision makers in the customer’s organization to provide business and technical thought leadership, and become a trusted advisor in solving mission-critical business challenges. She/he will architect business models with them so they can drive new monetization opportunities and growth for both the user and Stripe. Responsibilities Drive thought leadership and build executive relationships with key business and technical stake

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 The Stripe Security team is dedicated to improving the security of Stripe and its users. Our users trust us with some of their most sensitive information, and we make security a first-class consideration in everything we do. Security concerns are ever-evolving, creating an extremely dynamic environment for the Security team. The Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (SGRC) team helps Stripe make informed security decisions, understand its risk and control posture, and represent its security program to internal and external stakeholders. The team also manages security risk arising from Stripe’s relationships with third parties by assessing their security controls, identifying and mitigating risk, and supporting informed onboarding and risk-acceptance decisions. Our work helps Stripe move quickly while maintaining clear and consistent security expectations. What you'll do Independently manage a portfolio of Third Party Security Risk Assessments (TPSRAs) for new engagements, renewals / reassessments, and material changes in relationship scope. Review security questionnaires, independent assurance reports, certifications, penetration-test results, and other evidence to evaluate third-party control effectiveness. Identify security gaps, determine proportionate remediation requirements, and clearly communicate findings to Stripe DRIs and cross-functional partners. Apply Stripe’s third-party security standards consistently, documenting assessme

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 The Compute Foundation group builds and operates the core systems that enable every Stripe engineer to ship code, configuration, and infrastructure changes safely and at high velocity. Embedded on the Imaging team, you will design, build, and distribute Linux machine images; manage host bootstrapping and OS-configuration systems; oversee OS packages and security-patching infrastructure; and provide platforms that empower service teams to safely run workloads across cloud providers and regions. What you’ll do Own the foundation of Stripe’s compute fleet: Stripe’s services rely on host infrastructure that boots reliably, receives accurate configurations, and operates safely. Your decisions will directly shape the base operating system, package ecosystems, security posture, and bootstrap behavior of Stripe’s fleet. Lead active architectural transformations: The team is driving key platform evolutions, including modernizing the OS configuration layer, containerizing workloads, scaling machine image distribution across multi-cloud regions, and streamlining OS upgrades and critical security patching. Drive broad, end-to-end host lifecycle ownership: Work across the entire host lifecycle - from image construction, package distribution, kernel and OS configuration, early boot/systemd, storage, networking initialization, and workload readiness. You will tackle complex engineering challenges that balance reliability, security, compliance, developer ex

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 Money as a Service (MaaS) oversees a diverse portfolio of Stripe's core products and platforms, and our vision is to become the financial operating system for platforms and marketplaces globally.. These offerings facilitate the global movement and management of funds for users. The teams that fall under the MaaS umbrella are Connect, Money Management, and Crypto. Together, these teams work to ensure Stripe users have the robust financial infrastructure and tools they need to power their businesses on a global scale. What you’ll do As a TPM, you will play a key role leading complex programs across multiple engineering, product and cross-functional (finance, legal, compliance, risk, and other) teams spanning Stripe. You will be responsible for the successful definition, cross-functional strategy, planning and execution of large-scale technical programs that help to solve complex problems and empower Stripe and our users. Responsibilities Drive functional and technical delivery of key team and org-wide programs/initiatives. Partner with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and other cross functional partners to define, scope, and drive large programs to conclusion. Develop, implement, and iterate on program management techniques, frameworks, and KPIs to achieve goals with well defined success criteria. Make substantial improvements to how the teams you work with communicate and operate to significantly increase the productivity and efficiency

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 Community Operations manages Stripe’s support presence across public developer and merchant communities. The team responds across channels including X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and app-store reviews. Because these interactions are public and one-to-many, each response can influence user trust, Stripe’s brand, and the experience of people beyond the original poster. The team combines responsive community support with proactive signal detection. We identify recurring questions, emerging risk, product friction, documentation gaps, and opportunities to improve how Stripe supports its community. What you’ll do As a Community Operations Specialist, you will represent Stripe across public developer and merchant communities. You will independently assess and coordinate complex or high-visibility community cases, including situations involving influential users, executive tags, rapid amplification, privacy concerns, and incomplete information. You will guide less-experienced teammates, support incident and escalation response, surface recurring user and product signals, and contribute to defined operational-improvement projects. You will maintain strong queue performance while building experience in higher-impact Specialist work. For novel, highly sensitive, or incident-level decisions, you will work with senior Specialists and cross-functional partners to determine the safest path forward. Responsibilities Manage community interactio

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 The Partner Marketing team extends Stripe’s marketing reach to customers and prospects by educating, engaging and enabling partners, globally, to build market awareness and generate demand for their Stripe solutions and services. We recruit prospective partners and support the on-boarding and growth of existing partners as they build, launch, market, and scale business through the Stripe Partner Ecosystem and the Stripe platform. We partner closely with our global partnerships, GTM partners, marketing, sales, and product teams and serve many different partner types. What you’ll do We’re looking for an experienced, strategic, and results-oriented marketing leader to own Stripe’s global partner marketing strategy for SaaS platform and AI partners. You’ll lead a global team, define the multi-year operating and investment model, build influential relationships with partner and Stripe leaders, and scale programs that drive partner-sourced and partner-attached pipeline, customer activation, and product adoption. This role requires setting a clear long-term direction while leading through others and using performance insights to focus the organization on its highest-impact opportunities. Responsibilities Set the multi-year vision and global strategy for SaaS platform and AI partner marketing, translating Stripe’s company, marketing, and partnerships priorities into an operating model, investment strategy, and measurable outcomes. Lead and develop a

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 The Link team builds the premier consumer network for next-generation commerce, leveraging our base of 300M+ registered consumers to pioneer the future of Identity, Consumer Finance, and AI-driven transactions. While our foundation was built on high-conversion merchant payments and a flexible digital wallet, we are expanding far beyond. We are building the infrastructure for a world where AI agents transact on your behalf, stablecoins go mainstream, and identity dictates how money moves. The Consumer Preference team is building the Link experience across the web app and agents — building the wallet product consumers need to feel confident, excited, and inspired by the new ways payments and identity are changing online. As a senior member of the team, you will create new experiences such as financial insights powered by purchase history, rewards cards backed by a stablecoin balance, safe agentic purchase UX, automatic purchase protections, and subscription management. What you’ll do We’re hiring a Staff Full Stack Engineer to lead the design and delivery of new consumer capabilities in Link. The ideal candidate will combine technical depth across the stack with a strong product sense. In this role, you will take ambiguous product opportunities, create ways to validate them early, and ultimately ship complete products. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with broad technical and organizational scope. You will own large, cross-functi

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 The Builder Experience Team makes it easier for Stripe’s product teams to build the right products, ship them with confidence, and help users realize value from them. In order to build a great product, product teams must develop a deep understanding of users, shape and test ideas, coordinate across functions, navigate launch requirements, identify risks, gather feedback, and manage products after launch. Today, many of these workflows are fragmented, manual, or built around processes and tools that predate recent advances in AI. We are a small, AI-native team reimagining how Stripe builds, ships, and ramps products. We experiment with new approaches across AI agents, automation, and process—and scale the ones that work. Our initial areas of focus include reinventing launch readiness from gates into guidelines, giving product teams richer and more timely context, and shortening the feedback loops between builders, users, Sales, and Support. Our users are Stripe’s product managers, engineers, designers, researchers – and we help to simplify the interactions with the cross-functional teams that help bring products to market. We work closely with teams including all of our business unit PMs, Product Operations, and Kai, Stripe’s internal AI platform. What you'll do We’re looking for product-minded engineers who want to rethink how products get built—not simply digitize existing processes. You’ll identify high-friction parts of Stripe’s product-d

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 Product Sales is a team of deep functional and technical specialists who both lead and advise on deals for the most strategically important products in Stripe’s portfolio. Revenue and Finance Automation (RFA) Product Sales is tasked with attacking a $100B market opportunity for back office finance automation across billing, tax, revenue reporting, and data. What you’ll do As a Data Account Executive at Stripe, you will use your sales and product expertise to help drive growth for the Data Products. You will collaborate with the core sales, marketing, product marketing, and product teams to develop deep product and industry knowledge and drive strategic deals. You will be instrumental in leading in depth product discussions with existing and prospective customers – and building and executing against our go to market strategy. Responsibilities Build deep, resilient, and multi-threaded relationships across the client organization and ability to articulate value across different functions and business stakeholders in the organization. The capability to develop and execute formal Strategic Account Plans that map out the client organization, identify short-term and long-term growth opportunities, and forecast renewal/expansion cycles. Proactive communication & transparency with consistent value adding engagements, updates, and ability to manage expectations effectively. Acting as a trusted advisor rather than merely a ven

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 Customer Success Managers are ultimately responsible for the complete post-sales lifecycle of a Stripe user, and through your partnership, users will derive maximum value from their investments, leading to project success, retention, and renewal. Few roles provide such a direct impact on the growth of the company. What you'll do We're looking for a motivated and curious professional to manage a book of enterprise customers. The CSM delivers proactive workshops, business reviews, payments insights, and thought leadership to help users grow their business. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented and meticulous, and enjoys engaging customers to investigate issues and deliver insights. This role involves working closely with sales, technical account managers, and operations teams to engage customers in product, payment, and technical conversations. Responsibilities Partner closely with account executives and technical account managers to support post-sale engagements focused on the optimization, retention, and growth of enterprise customers Manage a book of customers to drive overall account health including performance, product adoption, usage velocity, account renewals and growth, referrals, and customer satisfaction Serve as a trusted payments and product advisor to managed customers by delivering payment performance and industry insights Perform business reviews to align on user priorities, review payments performance metrics,

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 The Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) team at Stripe is building a modern, revenue-focused, financial management platform for fast growing, digital native companies. Hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes and types use Stripe Billing to collect revenue for recurring and one-time payments across a variety of different pricing models—from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, providing recovery and retention tools to prevent customer churn,—and with the acquisition of Metronome, delivering Usage-Based Billing. Within this group, our team’s mission is to make Stripe and Metronome feel like one product, so merchants can bill for subscriptions and usage in a single, seamless experience. Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams within this org will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here . What you’ll do We’re looking for Full Stack engineers who are interested in building software services and platforms that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users, regardless of whether they’re an end user, developer, or partner. Responsibilities Scope, architect, and lead technical projects to improve on existing features and solve new problems Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack Design, build, and m