Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe, LLC. 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.

What you’ll do

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 contribute towards improvement in infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale.
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in Software development.

Must also have 5 years of experience in each of the following:

• Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
• Building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs;
• Scaling distributed systems;
• Breaking down large complex systems;
• Identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions;
• Building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
• Working in a development team in AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP; and
• Programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.