Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure

About Stripe

Stripe, LLC. 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.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture. 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 infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale.

• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes.

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in Software development.

Must also have 5 years of experience in each of the following:

• Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;

• Building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs;

• Scaling distributed systems;

• Breaking down large complex systems;

• Identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions;