Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

at Stripe

📍 Seattle, United States

USD 206,100-285,600 per year

SENIOR

✅ Hybrid

Tech Stack
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Data Analysis @ 4 Go @ 4 Java @ 4 PostgreSQL Ruby @ 4 SQL @ 4 Software Development @ 4 Trino @ 4

Details

Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The role focuses on developing highly available, resilient, and fault-tolerant global systems that support uptime and data protection.

Responsibilities

Develop global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole.
Work on latency-critical, time-sensitive, and data redundancy solutions.
Investigate Mongo write concerns, minimize cross-region TLS handshakes, and develop systems to automate disaster detection and failovers.
Write, scope, design, implement, and deploy solutions using Ruby, Java, Mongo, Postgres, and other necessary tools.
Investigate issues in live, distributed production systems.
Collaborate across the company on multi-region architectures, high-durability implementation patterns, and best practices.
Uphold high engineering standards through design and code review.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a related field, plus five years of post-bachelor's progressive software development experience; alternatively, a master's degree or foreign equivalent plus three years of software development experience.
Three years of experience with Go, Ruby, or Java programming languages.
Three years of experience with database internals, including data movement, leader election, and quorums.
Three years of experience with cloud infrastructure services, including S3, EBS, EC2, and VPCs, for deploying scalable applications.
Three years of experience designing and building Temporal workflows.
Three years of experience using Trino SQL for data analysis and visualization.
Three years of experience designing fault-tolerant systems using data sharding and replication strategies.

Benefits

Additional benefits may include equity, a company bonus, 401(k), medical, dental, and vision benefits, and wellness stipends. The role permits 50% telecommuting. Multiple positions are available.