Senior Software Engineer

Stripe; United States; Remote; USD 221,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Sales/bonuses

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain high-scale distributed systems and core networking solutions that power our products globally. You will collaborate with teams to deliver load balancing, mTLS, and observability tooling, enabling infra to scale across the company.

The role requires strong experience with Java and Go, cloud platforms, and open source distributed systems. We offer equity, a competitive salary, and 100% telecommuting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, plus 5 years’ post-bachelor experience, or Master’s +3 years.
• 3 years of experience in cloud systems (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI).
• 3 years building, debugging, and maintaining distributed systems with open source tools.
• Experience with Java and Go for software development.
• Experience tallying architectural design and data-driven cost-performance tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-scale distributed systems.
• Develop core networking solutions including load balancing and mTLS.
• Improve internal customer experience with Infra tooling.
• Design and deploy robust, scalable software solutions; balance reliability, throughput, latency, and cost.
• Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, and culture.
• Set goals and provide feedback to team members.

Skills

Software development

Cloud systems

Java

Go

Distributed systems

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

EC2

Envoy

Linux

Puppet

Job description

Who we are

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.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-scale, distributed systems to work with the company.
• Work within a team to build the core networking solutions, which include load balancing, mTLS networking, fleet health & observability used by product teams to build and operate microservices supporting the company’s business.
• Build a great customer experience for internal company teams using Infra and play a key role in enabling the company’s Infra to power all of the company’s products globally and at scale.
• 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 and resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale.
• Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture.
• Set clear goals and provide regular feedback on team member performance.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor’s Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor’s progressive work experience in software engineering. In the alternative, the employer is willing to accept a Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus three (3) years of experience in Software Engineering.

Must also have three (3) years of experience in the following:

• Software development including in Cloud systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI;
• Creating technical architecture and design;
• Building an operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
• Developing software using Java and GO;
• Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
• Breaking down large, complex systems, identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities, and making data drive cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions; and
• Utilizing systems and tools including: Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet.

Salary: $221,187 – $285,600/yr.

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

100% Telecommuting permitted.

Multiple Positions Available.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. CA50

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