Software Engineer, Stripe

• A minimum of five years of full-time professional experience in a software development role
• Track record of independently driving and executing mid-size and large-size projects
• Experience in mentoring junior engineers or delivering projects by leading a team
• Proficient in operational excellence with a solid understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboard systems
• Comprehensive experience in the design, development, maintenance, and debugging of distributed systems

Desirable

• As part of the Document Databases team, we provide a tier-0 real-time database infrastructure based on MongoDB to enable all of Stripe’s infrastructure
• We store nearly all of Stripe’s online data and have strict requirements for security, durability, availability, latency, and scalability
• We have a huge responsibility as we contribute to Stripe’s overall user experience
• Our mission is to provide a simple, secure, reliable, scalable, and performant document database as a service to enable teams at Stripe
• We run a massive fleet of databases and a large-scale distributed system to manage the fleet
• We are growing very fast which is challenging us to rethink our assumptions
• We are building the next generation of document-based database infrastructure to enable the next phase of Stripe’s growth
• We are looking for motivated engineers who thrive at solving hard problems in distributed systems and databases
• The ideal candidate is excited about database technology, eager to solve challenging distributed systems problems, and to partner with other Stripe engineering teams to establish empathy and understand their use-cases
• This is a great opportunity to have tremendous impact across Stripe
• Design, build, and maintain the core database infrastructure used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams
• Solve complicated problems that only exist at very high scale
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Plan for the growth of Stripe’s database platform infrastructure
• Develop tooling and automate processes to provide a resilient and flexible platform for other engineers
• Build a great customer experience for people using your infrastructure
• To get a concrete idea of what projects you might work on here, see the “Projects you could work on” section
• Design and build a comprehensive live data migration solution to allow data reorganization at MongoDB, achieving better reliability, scalability and cost-efficiency, and enabling new use cases
• Design and build the vertical and horizontal scaling solutions for MongoDB to empower Stripe and its customers’ ever growing business needs
• Design and build data routing and placement strategies and infrastructure to eliminate scalability bottlenecks and reduce reliability blast radius of MongoDB