Staff Engineer, Stripe

• 10+ years of professional experience in a software development role
• Proven track record of building large scale, cloud based complex distributed systems; identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities; and making data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions
• Experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers/product teams to deliver business value
• Experience leading and creating strong technical teams that balance operational excellence, collaboration and user needs
• Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards

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 business and 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 databases 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 a Staff engineer who thrives 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 data sharding mechanisms and infrastructure to enable Stripe’s growth over the next 10 years
• Implement dynamic capacity management and rate limiting infrastructure to keep systems healthy during 10x load events
• Build storage tiering and admission control systems to enforce balance between performance and efficiency
• Create tools and APIs that engineers love to use to understand the performance of and optimize their database queries