Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

at Stripe

📍 South San Francisco, United States
📍 Seattle, United States

USD 271,200-406,800 per year

SENIOR

✅ On-site

Tech Stack
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1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

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AWS @ 4 Azure @ 4 Debugging @ 4 DevOps @ 8 Distributed Systems @ 4 Kubernetes @ 4 Linux Mentoring @ 4 Microservices Networking @ 4 Observability Payments Security @ 4 Software Development @ 8 System Administration @ 4

Details

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 Infrastructure team owns core components used by all product teams to build microservices that support Stripe’s business. The team defines and drives the vision required to achieve best-in-class scale and availability. Technologies used include Linux OS, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, and AWS networking components.

The team continuously invests in building new distributed services and scaling existing technologies while working with teams across the company to meet their current and future needs. The Compute organization manages OS components, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, and deployments.

Responsibilities

Design, plan, build, and maintain container infrastructure used by all Stripe service teams.
Lead technical conversations and decision-making with infrastructure and backend teams.
Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe.
Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services.
Identify shared compute needs across Stripe, understand specific requirements, and prioritize solutions.
Build new features at large scale while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
15+ years of professional experience in software development or DevOps automation.
Several years of networking experience in development or system administration.
Experience with Kubernetes.
Experience leading projects at a cross-team or company-wide scale.
A strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure services.
Experience optimizing the reliability and security of distributed systems.
Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime.
Experience mentoring engineers at various stages of their careers.
Experience using at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Azure, OCI, or Google Cloud.
Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems.
Experience with operations culture and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards.