Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Stripe
Service Frameworks
$203.9-287.9k
+ Equity + Bonus
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
Job no longer available
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$203.9-287.9k
+ Equity + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- Curiosity to learn and share knowledge with peers, and the motivation to empower others to be more productive
- Pleasure in anticipating how systems fail, how to observe and design robust systems, and building the right interfaces that encourage best practices
- A mature understanding to strike the balance between ideal and pragmatic solutions on a case-by-case basis
- 5+ years of experience in service infrastructure, reliability engineering, software engineering, or systems engineering
- Strong coding skills in Java and/or Ruby for building highly performant services
Desirable
- Strong understanding and practical experience in service infrastructure environments (e.g. gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, Terraform, AWS, etc.)
- Strong understanding and practical experience in multiple database and storage options, including clustering, sharding and failure recovery of SQL, NoSQL, in memory caching, etc
- Familiarity with the full life cycle of software development, from design and implementation to testing and deployment
- Experience in distributed systems at scale with regards to testing, reliability, security, and observability
What the job involves
- The Service Frameworks team is responsible for empowering teams to build highly reliable and performant services, backing our payment systems, fraud detection, and a multitude of other products
- As an infrastructure engineer, you will build and expand the service frameworks to make complex systems easy to use, resilient, and scalable
- We build powerful interfaces for engineers that depend on these systems—deployment, load balancers, web framework, databases, Kafka and Kubernetes—while keeping them highly available and performant
- We’re looking for engineering leaders who can drive the technical vision of Stripe’s service infrastructure platform for hundreds of engineers to use and build on top of, and thrive in a highly autonomous environment with many moving pieces
- Lead technical conversations and decision making with product and infrastructure staff engineers, and within the Service Frameworks team
- Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Anticipate and plan for the growth of Stripe’s service frameworks
- Scope, design and implement platform solutions that make the appropriate tradeoffs between resiliency, durability, and performance
- Develop tooling and automate processes to provide a resilient and flexible platform for other engineers
- Help debug and solve critical infrastructure issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
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 payment 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 extending its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil, Japan and India. It is also partnering with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that is monetising OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhancing Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forward with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(CEO)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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