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.

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