Demo Engineer

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 Product Marketing team’s mission is to generate customer insights that inform Stripe’s product strategy, and lead go-to-market for our suite of products. Product Marketing is a highly cross-functional role at Stripe, partnering closely with Product and Engineering, Sales, Partnerships, Demand Generation and Campaigns to name a few. Different from many other Product Marketing teams, our team works across the entire product lifecycle, from helping shape the product, to driving launch and commercialization, to growing product adoption post-launch.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a Demo Engineer to build the on‑stage product demos that anchor our product announcement keynotes at Sessions, our annual user conference, and our global Stripe Tour event series. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, comms, and marketing. Partnering closely with product teams across the organization, you’ll own the keynote demos for our most exciting product launches, end to end—from concept and architecture to polish and rehearsals—so they’re technically flawless and narratively unforgettable.

Responsibilities

• Demo ownership and storytelling: Own the creation of all keynote demos (code and dashboard) across Stripe’s portfolio, from concept to live delivery, ensuring each demo maps to the keynote narrative and business goals. Partner with Product and Engineering to scope each demo: define technical requirements, dependencies, and success criteria; storyboard flows that showcase the key details of each product. Work closely with PMM, Comms, and Product to align each demo to key story beats in the keynote script.
• Technical architecture and engineering: Architect and build robust demo apps and environments (frontend, backend, services, data pipelines). Sweat the details: configure environments, provision accounts, set realistic sample data, and wire integrations/webhooks. Build internal tooling and frameworks to accelerate and safeguard make demo production.
• Collaboration and production support: Collaborate with Design and Marketing to craft clear, legible on‑screen moments and create supporting assets (screens, snippets, animations, backup videos). Orchestrate demo rehearsals and run‑of‑show, and train our on-stage demoers. Travel to be onsite for flagship events (SF and NY) and key Tour events; support live ops during show days, including non‑standard hours.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years in software engineering (or equivalent). Experience in demo engineering, solutions architecture, sales engineering, or developer relations is a plus. Payments/fintech, AV/show production familiarity, and hardware/POS experience are nice to have.
• Flexibility. Willing to travel (20–30%) and support non‑standard hours around major events.

Preferred Qualifications

• An engineer–storyteller. You can turn complex capabilities into crisp, memorable moments.
• Full‑stack capable. Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node/React) and/or Python; comfortable with APIs, webhooks, OAuth, and data stores (e.g., Postgres/Redis); familiar with common deployment infrastructure, such as GCP and AWS.
• A builder. You have experience integrating Stripe or other RESTful APIs into web applications, and can quickly build high quality demos that meet our standards of craft.
• Reliability‑obsessed. You design for live demos with fallbacks and risk mitigation in mind.
• Structured and strategic. You create storyboards, technical specs, and checklists; you manage version control and environments with discipline; you bring order to fast, high‑stakes work.
• Calm under pressure. You’ve supported live demos or launches and keep your cool when something unexpected happens; you think in contingencies.
• Collaborative. You work seamlessly with Product, Eng, PMM, Design, Comms, and show production; strong stakeholder management and clear communication.
• Organized. You can juggle multiple demos, rehearsals, and timelines across global events; strong project management and documentation habits.

Hybrid work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office).

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Working remotely at Stripe

A remote location is defined as being 35 miles (56 kilometers) or more from one of our offices. While you would be welcome to come into the office for team/business meetings, on-sites, meet-ups, and events, our expectation is you would regularly work from home rather than a Stripe office. Stripe does not cover the cost of relocating to a remote location. We encourage you to apply for roles that match the location where you currently live or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $187,500 - $281,300. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

Key skills/competency

• Demo Engineering
• Software Development
• Product Marketing
• Technical Storytelling
• Full-stack Development
• API Integration
• Event Production Support
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Management
• Risk Mitigation