Staff Engineer, Core 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

Our infrastructure supports businesses worldwide by processing payments, managing marketplaces, assisting entrepreneurs in launching internet businesses, and more. The Core Infra organization comprises teams responsible for operating system components, databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), high availability & disaster recovery, AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, change management, and network edge infrastructure. We’re actively collaborating with the open source community. 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 achieve a best in class price/performance ratio.

What you’ll do

As a Staff Infrastructure 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. 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 storage / databases, compute, and networking 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 infrastructure needs across Stripe, understand their specific requirements and prioritise solutions

Who you are

We’re looking for someone with a strong background in global 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
• 12+ years of professional experience in a software development 
• 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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in a development team in AWS/Azure/OCI/Google
• 3+ years experience with Go
• Experience with AWS network components (VPC, security groups, DNS Route 53, NLB, gateways, etc.)
• Experience with databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Terraform