Staff Software Engineer,

Stripe; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a senior engineer for the High Availability and Disaster Recovery team. You will design and operate highly available, resilient systems across global data centers to ensure uptime and data protection.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce latency, manage cross-region operations, and drive disaster recovery initiatives. The role emphasizes leadership, initiative, and mentoring across multiple engineering teams, with a distributed, remote-friendly work

Qualifications

• Have 10 years or more of distributed and cloud native software development experience at a highly-scaled or hyperscaler service
• Have a deep understanding of how to build scalable, resilient, distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and mission critical systems
• Have experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large projects across many teams
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving diverse stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Have a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial, proactive and self-driven
• Have a 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 the company’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 the company
• Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Autonomy & initiative

Technical leadership & mentoring

Job description

Who we areAbout the company

the company is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use the company 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.

About the team

In this role, you will be joining the High Availability and Disaster Recovery team.

At the company, 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 the company’s architecture 5, 10, or 20 years into the future.

This is a distributed team with many remote engineers.

What you’ll do

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 - one day may be investigating Mongo write concerns, the next may be minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes, followed by developing new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers. Your work will enable the company to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection which have historically been impossible.

Responsibilities

• Actively work with leaders and engineers across the company to understand and identify opportunities to improve the company’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 the company
• Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role.

The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

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