Staff Engineer, Distributed Cache Platform

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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. 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

The Core Infrastructure organization at Stripe is in charge of building and operating infrastructure services and cloud technologies used by product teams to launch new product offerings and features which support our business. This includes defining and driving the vision necessary to achieve best in class scale and availability. We continuously invest in building new distributed services and scaling existing technologies while working with various teams to meet their current and future needs.

The Distributed Caching Platform team within the Core Infrastructure organization has built a sophisticated, highly scalable, and ultra-low latency tier-0 caching platform. This mission-critical infrastructure serves as the backbone for a multitude of Stripe products. Operating with remarkable efficiency, the platform adeptly manages over 10 million requests per second, maintaining an impressively low latency of less than 5 ms, and upholding a stellar five 9's of reliability. As we advance into the next phase of expansion and innovation, we are actively seeking highly skilled engineers to join our team. This presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of Stripe's fastest-growing platforms, where you will play a key role in delivering the next set of groundbreaking features. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and thrive in a dynamic, high-growth environment, we invite you to be part of our journey in shaping the future of our caching platform.

What you’ll do

As a Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team that is in charge of building the core caching infrastructure used by product teams to build micro-services which support our business. Examples include control plane services responsible for managing cache infrastructure, solving complex problems such as replication of cached data across regions in real time, and scaling the infrastructure to support the next phase of growth. You will also build a great customer experience for internal Stripe teams that build on your software to power all of our products, globally and at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services
• Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services
• Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in a software development role
• Proven track record of building large scale, cloud based complex distributed systems; identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities; and making data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions
• Experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers/product teams to deliver business value
• Experience leading and creating strong technical teams that balance operational excellence, collaboration and user needs
• Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards
• Experience handling critical incidents for production systems

Preferred qualifications

• Experience on building large scale distributed systems in AWS
• Experience working with Distributed cache services like AWS Elasticache and technologies like memcached, Redis etc.
• Experience with C, C++, Go, Ruby or/and Java
• Experience with Linux OS

Hybrid work at Stripe

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

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.

A remote location, in most cases, 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 or plan to live.

Pay and benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $209,800 - $314,800. 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.

We look forward to hearing from you

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.