Staff Engineer, Stripe
Distributed Cache Platform
$209.8-314.8k
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$209.8-314.8k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and thrive in a dynamic, high-growth environment, we invite you to be part of our journey in shaping the future of our caching platform
- 0+ 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
- Experience handling critical incidents for production systems
Desirable
- Experience on building large scale distributed systems in AWS
- Experience working with Distributed cache services like AWS Elasticache and technologies like memcached, Redis etc
- Experience with C, C++, Go, Ruby or/and Java
- Experience with Linux OS
What the job involves
- The Core Infrastructure organization at Stripe is in charge of building and operating infrastructure services and cloud technologies used by product teams to launch new product offerings and features which support our business
- This includes defining and driving the vision necessary to achieve best in class scale and availability. We continuously invest in building new distributed services and scaling existing technologies while working with various teams to meet their current and future needs
- The Distributed Caching Platform team within the Core Infrastructure organization has built a sophisticated, highly scalable, and ultra-low latency tier-0 caching platform
- This mission-critical infrastructure serves as the backbone for a multitude of Stripe products. Operating with remarkable efficiency, the platform adeptly manages over 10 million requests per second, maintaining an impressively low latency of less than 5 ms, and upholding a stellar five 9's of reliability
- As we advance into the next phase of expansion and innovation, we are actively seeking highly skilled engineers to join our team
- This presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of Stripe's fastest-growing platforms, where you will play a key role in delivering the next set of groundbreaking features
- As a Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team that is in charge of building the core caching infrastructure used by product teams to build micro-services which support our business
- Examples include control plane services responsible for managing cache infrastructure, solving complex problems such as replication of cached data across regions in real time, and scaling the infrastructure to support the next phase of growth
- You will also build a great customer experience for internal Stripe teams that build on your software to power all of our products, globally and at scale
- Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services
- Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services
- Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company values
- Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
- An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
- Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
- Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(Content Strategist)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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