Staff Software Engineer - Remote, Global Availability

Stripe; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Company bonus

401(k) plan

Medical benefits

Dental & Vision

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a senior engineer for the High Availability and Disaster Recovery team. You will design and build resilience-focused distributed services that keep Stripe’s global infrastructure highly available.

This role emphasizes latency-critical, cross-region data integrity and disaster detection, with opportunities to mentor future leaders. You will join a distributed team with remote engineers across the United States and Canada, and collaborate to ensure uptime and security for

Qualifications

• 10+ years of distributed and cloud-native software development experience at a highly-scaled or hyperscaler service.
• Deep understanding of building scalable, resilient distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large cross-team projects.
• Thrives in a collaborative environment with diverse stakeholders.
• High autonomy, entrepreneurial, proactive and self-driven.
• Strong history as a technical lead and mentor across several engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Actively work with leaders and engineers to improve Stripe’s reliability posture.
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust distributed services with tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency and cost.
• Innovate, design and implement new products to improve service resiliency and engineering velocity.
• Mentor and grow the next generation of Stripe technical leaders.
• Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture.
• Uphold high engineering standards and improve 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. You will design and build resilience-focused distributed services that keep Stripe’s global infrastructure highly available.

This role emphasizes latency-critical, cross-region data integrity and disaster detection, with opportunities to mentor future leaders. You will join a distributed team with remote engineers across the United States and Canada, and collaborate to ensure uptime and security for