Backend Engineer - Core Infra & Distributed Systems

Stripe; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Company bonus or sales commissions/bon

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe's systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe's people.

You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including core infrastructure, developer infrastructure, data infrastructure, admin platform, service platform, and developer productivity AI, with focus on delivering reliable, scalable systems and fast inner dev loops.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above.
• Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc.)
• 2-12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms
• Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems
• Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
• Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Responsibilities

• Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe
• Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Go/Java/C/C++

Team collaboration

Customer obsession

Tools

Trino/Presto

ElasticSearch

Hive Metastore

Pinot

Job description

Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe's systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe's people.

You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including core infrastructure, developer infrastructure, data infrastructure, admin platform, service platform, and developer productivity AI, with focus on delivering reliable, scalable systems and fast inner dev loops.