Software Engineer, Stripe

• 8+ years of experience in software development
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
• A strong engineering background in building distributed systems at scale, with high reliability
• Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems
• Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards
• Holds yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

Desirable

• In this role, you will be joining the High Availability and Disaster Recovery team. At Stripe, availability is a core feature of our products
• This team designs and builds new solutions to allow latency-critical, stateful applications to survive any type of disaster
• We're looking for an experienced, world class, distributed systems engineer to join us and support large, cross-organizational initiatives to improve the availability and uptime of all our products
• In this role you’ll work across Stripe engineering to design, develop, and deploy practices, processes, and innovative infrastructure software that will be leveraged by the whole organization to ensure that our cloud services are Available by Design
• You will help develop our global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole
• You will work on latency-critical solutions where every millisecond matters and data redundancy is a hard requirement
• You will actively work with leaders and engineers across the company to understand and identify opportunities to improve Stripe’s reliability posture
• You will learn quickly and work on a broad range of problems - one day may be investigating Mongo write concerns, the next may be minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes, followed by developing new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers
• First and foremost, you will write code
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust distributed services, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
• Investigate issues in live, distributed production systems
• Innovate, design and implement new products and prototypes to improve service resiliency, engineering velocity and management at scale
• Work with teams across Stripe to help them understand multi-region architectures, high durability implementation patterns, and best practices
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe