Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure

at Stripe

USD 206,100-285,600 per year

SENIOR

✅ Hybrid

Tech Stack
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AWS @ 4 Azure @ 4 Debugging @ 6 Distributed Systems @ 6 GCP @ 4 Go @ 4 Java @ 4 Payments Python @ 4 Ruby @ 4 Software Development @ 6

Details

Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

Responsibilities

Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture.
Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity, and cost.
Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that improve infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale.
Uphold high engineering standards and improve the codebase and processes.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
At least 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in software development.
5 years of experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open-source tools.
5 years of experience building infrastructure as a product centered around users' needs.
5 years of experience scaling distributed systems.
5 years of experience breaking down large, complex systems.
5 years of experience identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data-driven cost-performance tradeoffs that influence design decisions.
5 years of experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers.
Experience working in a development team using AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP.
Experience with Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.

Benefits

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

The role permits 50% telecommuting. Multiple positions are available.