Staff Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

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 Stripe 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 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

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. 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

Stripe 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.