Software Engineer, Core Technology

About the job

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

Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe's systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe's people. You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including

• Core Infrastructure—We're the home for Stripe's critical tier-0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching, and High assurance engineering). We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability, availability, efficiency, and scalability of these systems.
• Developer Infrastructure—We're responsible for the productivity of all developers at Stripe. We ensure Stripe's engineers have a reliable inner dev loop to maximize productivity while building everything from low-latency microservices to large-scale data pipelines and machine learning models.
• Security—We're a newly formed security team tasked with building the guardrails to extend Stripe's secure platform, allowing engineers to leverage new technologies that best meet their needs. We work on enabling new technologies for product and platform teams, prioritizing business needs as well as building the tooling and controls that further enable self-serve, guaranteeing we maintain a high bar across all Stripe surfaces with security in-built into foundations.
• Application and Revenue Platform—We build the powerful and scalable infrastructure that powers the company's application offerings and supports the processing and management of global transaction volumes.

Team Matching—exact team matching for one of the sub-teams within one of these organizations will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different organizations based on your experience, location, etc.

What you'll do

We're looking for software engineers who are interested in building software services and platforms that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users, regardless of whether they're an end user, developer, or partner. You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship great code every day.

Responsibilities

• Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe
• Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack

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

• 7+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
• Ability to write well-factored algorithms and experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms
• Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems
• Strong coding skills in any programming language (we understand engineers learn new languages on the job, so our interview process is language agnostic)
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
• Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Preferred qualifications

• Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems
• Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production