Client Platform Engineer, Stripe
$128.7-174.1k
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Open for applications
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$128.7-174.1k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking someone who brings an engineering mindset to solving technical problems
- Though past experience as a Client Platform Engineer is a plus, it is not a requirement
- We are seeking to grow the team by adding generalist Engineers who are capable of solving a variety of technical problems
- Experience managing endpoints using code-based configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible)
- Proficiency in at least one software development language
- Experience writing infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files
- Experiencing writing middleware
- Experience leveraging APIs to make changes
- A user's first mindset and a focus on creating great user experiences
Desirable
- Experience deploying and managing binary authorization systems
- Familiarity with third-party and open source CPE tools
- Familiarity with Mobile Device Management (MDM) tools
- Familiarity with managing fleets of macOS, ChromeOS, iOS, Android, and/or Windows devices
- Proficiency managing cloud infrastructure using an industry-standard provider
What the job involves
- The Client Platform Engineering (CPE) team, residing within the Corporate Technology organization, builds the tooling to secure and manage our endpoints, while maintaining a frictionless user experience for Stripes
- Your day-to-day work will include a mix of tending to our existing fleet and its associated management tools, working on larger strategic projects that span multiple teams and quarters (one example: self-service laptop provisioning tools), and providing input into our longer-term roadmap and planning activities
- Be responsible and accountable for the successful delivery of engineering projects that improve the security, reliability, compliance, and automation of our fleet
- Be constantly on the lookout for opportunities to eliminate manual work through tool building and automation
- Collaborate with our primary internal customers (Security, IT Operations and Developer Productivity) to respond to their requests and troubleshoot issues with the tooling we provide them
- Use your deep technical skills to debug and solve complex technical problems
- Hold a high bar for code quality and standards by reviewing, approving and providing feedback on code submission by your peers
- Be a contributor to longer-term artifacts such as our team charter and roadmap
- Demonstrate strong dispute resolution and technical decision making, and provide deliberate and thoughtful explanations of how decisions are reached
- Be a mentor to others. This includes holding a high bar on technical decision making and on engineering artifacts like design docs and code that the team produces
- Contribute to the development and refinement of operational metrics, and improve the systems used to track the health of our fleet
- Help your teammates by sharing knowledge, mentoring, and participating in our on-call rotation
- Keep abreast of industry trends and forums to ensure Stripe remains an innovator in this domain
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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