Software Engineer, Network

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 Network Infrastructure team at Stripe owns core network 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. 

What you’ll do

As a Software Engineer for Core Network, you will play a key 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.

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. 

Responsibilities

• Build a great customer experience for internal Stripe teams using your infrastructure
• Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure services
• Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services
• Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritisation

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

• 2-10 years of professional experience in a software development 
• Networking experience (development) 
• Experience using one of the major cloud providers - AWS/Azure/OCI/GCP
• Experience with Linux OS
• A strong engineering background in infrastructure services
• Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems
• Experience with ops culture and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in a development team in AWS/Azure/OCI/GCP
• Experience with Go
• Experience with AWS network components (VPC, security groups, DNS Route 53, NLB, gateways, etc.)
• Experience with Terraform