[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Stripe

Role Description

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 build distributed systems on top of unreliable architecture to provide highly available and resilient customer solutions. This team is creating greenfield solutions which will serve as the basis for Stripe’s architecture 5, 10, or 20 years into the future.

This is a distributed team with many remote engineers. You are encouraged to apply if you meet the minimum requirements and are able to work from anywhere in the United States or Canada.

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 learn quickly and work on a broad range of problems:

• Investigating Mongo write concerns
• Minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes
• Developing new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers

Your work will enable Stripe to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection which have historically been impossible.

Qualifications

• 10 years or more of distributed and cloud native software development experience at a highly-scaled or hyperscaler service
• Deep understanding of how to build scalable, resilient, distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and mission critical systems
• Experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large projects across many teams
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving diverse stakeholders and subject matter experts
• High level of autonomy and responsibility, thinking of yourself as entrepreneurial, proactive and self-driven
• Strong history of being a technical lead and mentor across several engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Actively work with leaders and engineers across the company to understand and identify opportunities to improve Stripe’s reliability posture
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust distributed services, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
• Innovate, design and implement new products and prototypes to improve service resiliency, engineering velocity and management at scale
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
• Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes