Architect Stripe’s high-throughput screening infrastructure in Toronto, balancing low latency, accuracy, reliability, and evolving financial crimes controls.
This Staff Software Engineer role owns technical strategy for distributed screening and detection systems. You will establish multi-year architecture, guide platform modernization, and address entity- and transaction-level requests at scale. Collaboration with Legal, Compliance, ML, and Product turns regulatory requirements into dependable software.
Key Responsibilities: Establish technical vision for real-time screening infrastructure
Optimize distributed systems under strict SLA and uptime guarantees
Own reliability, observability, latency, and operational readiness




Develop multi-tenant screening platforms and developer-facing APIs
Drive alignment across engineering and cross-functional leaders
Requirements: 10+ years of software engineering experience
Strategic leadership across core infrastructure or platform engineering
Proven high-throughput, low-latency API experience
Track record defining roadmaps across engineering teams
Hands-on architecture, performance tuning, and debugging depth
Bring distributed systems leadership to Stripe’s screening platform, connecting technical strategy with reliability, scale, and compliance.

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📌 Staff Distributed Systems Engineer Stripe (Ontario)
🏢 Stripe
📍 Ontario