Staff Software Engineer, Stripe

• We're looking for a Software Engineer with experience designing, building and maintaining high-scale, distributed systems
• We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role
• If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply
• The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement
• 8+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
• Proven track record of building large scale, 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 in operational maintenance of large scale distributed systems

Desirable

• The Batch Compute team at Stripe manages the infrastructure, tooling and systems behind running batch processing systems at Stripe, which are currently powered by Hadoop and Spark
• Batch processing systems power several core asynchronous workflows at Stripe and operate at significant scale
• You will work with a team that is in charge of the core infrastructure used by the product teams to build and operate batch processing jobs
• You will have an opportunity to play a hands-on role in significantly rearchitecting our current infrastructure to be much more efficient and resilient
• This re-architecture will introduce disaggregation of Hadoop storage and compute with open source solutions
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
• Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement in resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale for batch processing infrastructure