Software Engineer

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.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling process, and culture.
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions.
• Make appropriate tradeoffs between reliability throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity and cost.
• Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute toward improvement in infrastructure, resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale.
• Uphold the company’s high engineering standards and improve the overall codebase and processes.

Minimum Requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus two (2) years of work experience in software development.

Must also have two (2) years of experience in each of the following:

• Designing and deploying scalable infrastructure within major public cloud environments, specifically using AWS, Azure, or GCP;
• Cloud-native networking, compute instances (EC2), and storage solutions to support global, high-availability financial services;
• Developing software in Go and Ruby to build and maintain robust distributed systems and internal tooling;
• Writing clean, maintainable code to automate infrastructure management and develop the core services that power microservice architecture;
• Kubernetes and containerization technologies to manage large-scale server fleets and microservices;
• Designing orchestration strategies that ensure system reliability, efficient resource allocation and seamless deployments across a distributed environment; and
• Designing, building, and debugging high-scale distributed systems using open-source tools, analyzing complex system architectures, identifying performance bottlenecks, and implementing data-driven optimizations that improve latency, resiliency, and cost-performance ratios.