Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Who we are

About Stripe

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.

About the team

The Infrastructure team at Stripe owns core components used by all product teams to build micro-services which support our business. This includes defining and driving the vision necessary to achieve best of breed scale and availability. Some of the technologies that we work with include Linux OS, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, and AWS networking components. We continuously invest in building new distributed services and scaling existing technologies while working with various teams to meet their current and future needs.

Stripe’s infrastructure powers businesses all over the world. We process payments, run marketplaces, help entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world, and more. The Compute organization is composed of teams that manage our OS components, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, and deployments. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe’s infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. Your solutions will allow our business to scale and achieve a best in class price/performance ratio.

What you’ll do

As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer in Compute, you will play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe’s infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. Your solutions will allow our business to scale and achieve a best in class price/performance ratio. You'll also work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Responsibilities

Design, plan, build, and maintain container infrastructure used by all Stripe service teams

Lead technical conversations and decision making with other infrastructure and backend teams

Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe

Participate in roadmap planning and prioritisation

Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack

Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services

Identify the shared compute needs across Stripe, understand their specific requirements and prioritise solutions

Who you are

We’re looking for someone with a strong background in networking cloud infrastructure 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

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field

15+ years of professional experience in a software development or devops automation role

Networking experience (development or system administration) over a number of years

Experience with Kubernetes

Experience leading projects on a cross-team or company-wide scale

A strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure services

Experience optimising the reliability and security of distributed systems

Experience with scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime

Experience mentoring engineers at various stages in their careers

Experience using one of the major cloud providers - AWS/Azure/OCI/Google

Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems

Experience with ops culture and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards