Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Core Infrastructure team at Stripe is entrusted with developing and maintaining the infrastructure utilized by all product teams to create services that underpin all Stripe business operations. This includes defining and executing a vision that ensures industry-leading scale and availability, and actively balancing these concerns with efficiency, latency, and organizational health. We are committed to advancing new distributed services and scaling existing technologies across the industry, in close collaboration with various teams to support their current and future demands, and various external partners in the open source community.

Our infrastructure supports businesses worldwide by processing payments, managing marketplaces, assisting entrepreneurs in launching internet businesses, and more. The Infra organization comprises teams responsible for operating system components, databases, caching, high availability, disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, change management, and network edge infrastructure.

What you'll do

As a Software Engineer, for the Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team that is in charge of building the core infrastructure used by product teams to build micro-services which support our business. Examples include control plane services responsible for managing our primary database and cache infrastructure as well as building automation around managing cloud components for compute, cache and networking. 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.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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
  

Who you are

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

• 4+ years of professional experience in a software development role
  
• Experience using one of the major cloud providers
  
• A strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale
  
• Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems
  
• Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards
  

Preferred qualifications

• Experience on popular cloud technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP/Oracle Cloud
  
• Experience with Go
  
• Experience with Linux OS
  
• Experience working with Kubernetes clusters
  
• Experience in Networking and Traffic Systems at scale
  
• Experience working with NoSQL databases
  
• Experience handling critical incidents for production systems
  
• Experience working with Distributed cache services like AWS Elasticache and technologies like memcached, Redis etc.
  

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is A$161,600 - A$242,400. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant's location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.

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