Remote Backend Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Kenyan Edu; Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco (IL, WA, CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is hiring a Backend Engineer for Core Technology to design, build, test, and ship scalable software that powers our distributed systems. You'll collaborate with internal and external teams, contribute to roadmaps, and diagnose production issues, ensuring high performance and reliability across Stripe's services.

Ideal candidates have 2–12+ years of hands-on software development experience and proficiency in Go, Java, or C/C++, with a strong passion for performance optimization and

Qualifications

• 2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and performance considerations.

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

Go

Java

C/C++

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Tools

Trino/Presto

Apache Pinot

Hive Metastore

ElasticSearch

Job description

Stripe is hiring a Backend Engineer for Core Technology to design, build, test, and ship scalable software that powers our distributed systems. You'll collaborate with internal and external teams, contribute to roadmaps, and diagnose production issues, ensuring high performance and reliability across Stripe's services.

Ideal candidates have 2–12+ years of hands-on software development experience and proficiency in Go, Java, or C/C++, with a strong passion for performance optimization and