Software Engineer, Secrets Infrastructure
Core
Building cryptographic identity and secrets management foundation for Stripe, including internal certificate authority and secrets platform for financial systems.
Role type
Senior IC security infrastructure engineer (PKI/secrets)
Builds
Certificate authority, secrets management libraries, and authentication infrastructure for thousands of services.
Domain
Financial technology / Cybersecurity / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, system programming (C++/Rust/C#), cryptography, PKI, secret management, Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud platforms, debugging, technical writing, on-call management
Preferred skills
Java, Ruby, Python, Kubernetes internals, AWS operations, developer tools/libraries, fully remote work experience
Technologies
Go, Java, Ruby, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS
Responsibilities
Design and implement features in certificate authority and secrets management systems; implement authentication and secrets infrastructure across multiple languages; design secrets and identity integrations with partner teams; develop certificate provisioning and secret management integrations for compute platforms; maintain 99.99%+ availability for critical infrastructure; participate in on-call rotation for critical infrastructure
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC