Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

at Stripe

📍 Sydney, Australia

AUD 166,400-249,600 per year

MIDDLE

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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Details

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. Stripe's mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

About the Team

The Core Infrastructure team develops and maintains the infrastructure used by all product teams to create services that underpin Stripe's business operations. The team defines and executes a vision for industry-leading scale and availability while balancing efficiency, latency, and organizational health.

The team advances distributed services and scales existing technologies in collaboration with internal teams and external partners in the open source community. The Infrastructure organization includes teams responsible for operating system components, databases, caching, high availability, disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, change management, and network edge infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services.
Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services.
Operate services, debug issues, and support customers.
Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
Build control plane services for managing primary database and cache infrastructure.
Build automation for managing cloud components for compute, cache, and networking.
Provide a strong internal customer experience for Stripe teams building products on the infrastructure.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

5+ years of professional experience in a software development role.
Experience building, deploying, and managing infrastructure on a major cloud provider.
A strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale, with a solid grasp of underlying operating system primitives.
Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems, including diagnosing low-level resource constraints.
Experience with operational excellence and modern observability practices, including distributed tracing, structured logging, and system-level metrics.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with popular cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle Cloud.
Experience with Go or other systems languages, such as Rust, C, or C++.
Experience with Linux OS internals, performance optimization, and kernel-level troubleshooting.
Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and low-level container mechanics.
Experience in networking and traffic systems at scale.
Experience handling critical incidents for production systems.