Staff Software Engineer — High Availability & Disaster Recovery

Stripe; United States; Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a senior engineer for the High Availability and Disaster Recovery team in the United States. You will help design and build highly available, resilient, distributed services to ensure uptime for latency-sensitive applications. This is a largely remote-friendly role with hybrid options.

You will work on cross-region reliability, data protection, and disaster detection, collaborating with engineers across Stripe to drive architectural resilience for years to come.

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 Stripe’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 Stripe.
• Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture.
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud native

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Autonomy

Job description

Stripe is seeking a senior engineer for the High Availability and Disaster Recovery team in the United States. You will help design and build highly available, resilient, distributed services to ensure uptime for latency-sensitive applications. This is a largely remote-friendly role with hybrid options.

You will work on cross-region reliability, data protection, and disaster detection, collaborating with engineers across Stripe to drive architectural resilience for years to come.