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 organization We provide leveraged and usable infrastructure for Stripes to explore innovative, new products while concurrently extending secure, reliable and cost-effective mature business lines. Our mission is to: - Enable Stripe product teams to rapidly build new products, and quickly iterate on existing products, to drive value for our users and Stripe. - Provide Stripe’s product teams a secure, performant, and efficient platform for creating and maintaining their products and services - Enable Stripe’s engineers to build scalable applications with high speed, quality and performance - Enable Stripe’s largest users to scale their businesses on Stripe. You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including: - Developer Infrastructure - We are responsible for making Stripe’s developers happy and productive. We work on tools, processes, and code refactoring to accelerate Stripe engineering as Stripe scales. You’ll collaborate closely with partner teams in Europe, such as CI Infra and CI Services, Test Environments and Frameworks, as well as partner teams based in the US who provide language specific tooling for Engineers who develop in any of Stripe’s supported languages (Ruby, Java, Golang, Python and more). - Merchant Health Reporting- The team operates at the intersection of customer trust and internal velocity. We build Stripe Health Alerts, a customer-facing product ensuring reliability for our largest users. Concurrently, we build transformative AI tools with cutting-edge models and tech (LLM, MCP, RAG) that turn hours of work into minutes for teams across Stripe, directly impacting our operational efficiency. - Operator tooling - At Operator Tooling, we're on a mission to eliminate the burdensome manual processes that weigh down our operators, freeing them to focus on the impactful, meaningful work they were hired to do. We're building a platform to tackle the daily frustrations head-on, from those endless Excel files, unstructured email chains, and repetitive, time-draining tasks. - Compliance Foundations - Internal Controls Engineering owns systems and tools to measure and increase operational efficiency of all internal controls throughout Stripe. We build tools for owners of financial, business, and technology controls. We are part of a larger Compliance Foundations engineering organization, and work closely with our partner engineering teams to increase efficiency and predictability of compliance. - Internal Developer Toolings - The team is responsible for accelerating Stripe’s developers and providing a positive experience. We work on tools, processes, and code refactoring to enhance Stripe's engineering as it scales.The team has three main areas of responsibility. Our mission encompasses optimizing day-to-day engineering work in regards to our QA infrastructure, advancing the capabilities of the Synthetics tool, and facilitating effective service-to-service testing. Through these efforts, we aim to improve the reliability of Stripe's systems and platforms, enhance the quality of deliverables, and ultimately foster a more efficient and innovative development process. - Privileged Access Tooling - This team improves security by providing secure alternatives to unrestricted access, safeguarding sensitive systems and data. We develop robust tools and interfaces to minimize risks associated with privileged access, ensuring data integrity and confidentiality. Teams use our tools as they provide safe, intuitive and simple interfaces for their operational workflows minimizing the need for default, extreme privileged access. What you’ll do You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day. Responsibilities - Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure - Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization - Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe - Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack. 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 - Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above. - 3+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structure and algorithms - Hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems - Strong collaboration skills, can work across work streams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success - Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome - Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial Preferred Qualifications - Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Python, Java, Go, Javascript, C#, Go, PHP, Kotlin, Ruby, C++) Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems - Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external - Holds yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

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 Our internship program will provide an opportunity to work on meaningful products that will grow the GDP of the internet. Through the internship, you will work with many systems and technologies, gain experience in systems design and testing, and have opportunities to present your work to your team and the wider org. Each intern has a dedicated intern manager, and every project is part of the team’s roadmap and will directly help Stripe’s mission. What you’ll do Every internship at Stripe centers around a real, legitimate project that our customers urgently need, touching many parts of our operations and stack. We will support you in shipping it. Yes, you will actually ship it. Some recent projects include rebuilding our statistics aggregation service, building new service discovery systems, and many user facing projects like making it easy to understand error messages on Stripe Checkout. As a Stripe intern, you'll be tackling important projects to increase global commerce, while working alongside exceptional people who insist on doing their best work. You’ll learn from people with high standards who are great at inspiring others to do more and go further. We value technical and personal growth, and see our internship program as a vehicle to foster both. Responsibilities - Write software that will be used in production, and has meaningful impact to Stripe - Give and receive technical feedback through code reviews or design discussions - Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to proactively seek and incorporate feedback - Learn quickly by asking great questions, by working with your intern manager and teammates effectively, and by communicating the status of your work clearly 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 - A strong fundamental understanding of computer science through pursuit of a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, math, or a related discipline - Some experience and familiarity with programming, either through side projects or classwork. We work mostly in Java, Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, and Go. We believe new programming languages can be learned if the fundamentals and general knowledge are present - Experience from previous internships or other multi-person projects, including open source contributions, that demonstrate evaluating and receiving feedback from mentors, peers, and stakeholders - Ability to learn unfamiliar systems and form an understanding of those systems, through independent research and working with a mentor and subject matter experts Preferred qualifications - At least 2 years of university education, or equivalent work experience - One or more areas of specialized knowledge balanced with general skills and knowledge, such as knowing more frontend technologies and, at a high level, how a service handles an HTTP request - Understanding and some experience writing high quality pull requests, with good test coverage, and working knowledge to complete projects with minimal defects - Familiarity with navigating and managing your work in new code bases, with multiple languages - Ability to write clearly to explain your work to stakeholders, team members, and other Stripes.