Software Engineer, Network 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 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, detect fraud, help entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world, build world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more.  Every request we process is very important to everyone involved  and Stripe’s availability and reliability are critical because our users’ businesses depend on us. Our Online Database organization provides the core database infrastructure that’s at the heart of all real-time critical payment requests to the Stripe API.
We architect, build, maintain, and operate the underlying database infrastructure that enables six 9s (that’s right, 6) of availability for all critical Stripe payment APIs. Our system is the record of truth for nearly all of Stripe’s online data. It must meet the highest levels of security, availability, consistency, performance, and durability in the face of our ever-increasing growth. We are continually thinking about ways to evolve  our infrastructure to support Stripe’s growing needs to build the best-in-class distributed database platform -- including ways to work around the CAP theorem!

What you’ll do

As a Software Engineer, for the Network Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team that is in charge of building the infrastructure used by product teams to build micro-services which support our business including building automation around managing cloud components for compute, cache and networking. You will also build a great customer experience for internal Stripe teams that build on your software to power all of our products, globally and at scale.

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

• Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services
• Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services
• Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization

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

• 4+ years of professional experience in a software development role
• Experience using one of the major cloud providers
• A strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale
• Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems
• Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards

Preferred qualifications

• Experience on popular cloud technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP/Oracle Cloud
• Experience with Go
• Experience with Linux OS
• Experience in Networking and Traffic Systems at scale
• Experience handling critical incidents for production systems