Senior Backend Engineer, Scalable Infrastructure

Stripe; Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco (IL, WA, CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe Infrastructure is seeking engineers to design, build, test, and deploy high‑quality code that powers Stripe’s reliability and scalability. You will work on critical internal platforms and customer‑facing services, ensuring performant, secure, and scalable infrastructure across the organization.

You will contribute to large distributed systems, collaborate with multiple teams, and tackle production issues to maintain service quality.

Qualifications

• 2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience.
• Experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems.
• Ability to work across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Go

Java

C/C++

Distributed systems

Software engineering

Job description

Stripe Infrastructure is seeking engineers to design, build, test, and deploy high‑quality code that powers Stripe’s reliability and scalability. You will work on critical internal platforms and customer‑facing services, ensuring performant, secure, and scalable infrastructure across the organization.

You will contribute to large distributed systems, collaborate with multiple teams, and tackle production issues to maintain service quality.