Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe’s systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe’s people. The role involves working on critical business areas such as Core Infrastructure, Developer Infrastructure, Data Platform, Admin Platform, Application & Revenue Platform, Service Platform, and Financial Systems.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above.
- Ability to write high quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc)
- 2-12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structure and algorithms
- Hands-on experience contributing to or building large scale distributed systems
- Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
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
Other
- Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
- Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
- Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
- Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production