This role is ideal for a seasoned backend engineer with at least 6 years of professional experience who is passionate about data ethics and infrastructure. Stri
Work type: onsite
Location: San Francisco, Seattle
Salary: $190,400 – $285,600/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is ideal for a seasoned backend engineer with at least 6 years of professional experience who is passionate about data ethics and infrastructure. Stripe is looking for a developer who can navigate the "ambiguous spaces" of privacy engineering, moving comfortably between building customer-facing APIs and heavy-duty internal data pipelines. While experience with Ruby or Java is a plus, the core requirement is a high standard for code quality and the ability to collaborate with legal and product teams to translate complex regulations into technical solutions. The standout aspect of this position is the high-stakes impact: you will be building the literal foundation of trust for millions of businesses. These products, such as the Data Access Tool and redaction APIs, are critical to the company's global compliance and user-first mission. Additionally, the role offers significant flexibility with a fully remote work arrangement for candidates in the San Francisco or Seattle areas, providing a blend of high-level enterprise engineering with the autonomy of remote work. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have 6+ years of experience building scalable backend systems or complex data pipelines. * Are interested in "Privacy by Design" and want to build tools that help users control their personal information. * Enjoy working cross-functionally with legal and ops teams to solve problems without clear ownership lines. * Want to work on high-visibility API products that directly impact a global financial platform’s reputation.
## 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
Privacy products’ mission is to build trust that Stripe is a responsible steward of user’s data while managing privacy risk and enabling business growth. The team does this by building industry leading privacy products and foundational privacy infrastructure. These products provide: transparency to our users about Stripe’s data practices, choices and controls to our users about their data, and solutions to our customers to manage their privacy. The infrastructure we build allows Stripe engineers to meet our users’ expectations and regulatory requirements for how Stripe handles and safeguards user data. Stripe’s operating principles focus on putting users first. This means the businesses built on Stripe and consumers who use payments through Stripe need to trust Stripe to process their data. Protecting our user’s data and prioritizing privacy is how we put users first.
## What you’ll do
As a privacy products engineer at Stripe, you’ll build products that our customers and consumers use to manage their privacy needs. The customer facing product portfolio includes data access tooling (Data Access Tool) within a privacy portal and a new redaction API. The non-customer facing portfolio includes internal libraries and tooling such as cookie and consent frameworks and data access and deletion pipelines. Your role heavily impacts Stripe's overall privacy posture, and you'll collaborate cross-functionally with product owners, engineering teams, privacy legal, and ops teams. Your work is not only impactful; it is critical to the long-term success of Stripe and our users.
### Responsibilities
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