Staff Engineer, IAM Control Plane

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 IAM Control Plane team's mission is to empower Stripe users to easily and securely manage their access to Stripe products and data. As part of Stripe's Organizations and Auth Platform, we own the platform for API keys, user roles, and access auditing, ensuring the right people have the keys to the kingdom-and no one else.

We are a growing team of 6 engineers with an ambitious roadmap, blending deep platform work with direct product impact.

What you'll do

You will design, build, and maintain the critical systems that control our user's access to Stripe.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the next generation of IAM primitives to securely power AI-driven agentic experiences on Stripe.
• Develop new user-facing permission models, including custom roles and granular access controls.
• Architect and implement platform features like Account Groups to simplify access management for large organizations.
• Own and operate mission-critical, highly-available backend services that are fundamental to every Stripe user's experience.
• Work across the stack to ship end-to-end features, from API design and database modeling to the occasional frontend component.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes as well as mentor team members.

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

Preferred qualifications

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