Staff Software Engineer, Observability 

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

About the team

The Observability team at Stripe provides engineers, merchants, and organizational leaders with the infrastructure and experiences to diagnose any operational issues with Stripe online services. We aim to do this reliably and cheaply at scale.

Our group is going on an ambitious journey to reimagine what an industry leading observability solution looks like. We are building a new observability platform from the ground up as a core foundational cornerstone for all of Stripe’s infrastructure & product services. We'll use modern distributed computing concepts and open source observability components that will scale with Stripe’s growth over the coming 10 years. We envision a modern platform that can efficiently scale to multiple petabytes of logs and billions of metrics on a daily basis.

What you’ll do

As a Technical Leader, you’ll be responsible for designing, building and maintaining high-scale, big-data distributed systems. You will join the team to deliver an observability solution that breaks the scaling records and exceeds the reliability and performance expectations of client teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture
• Actively work with engineers across the company to understand and
  identify observability needs
• Understand our current system architecture, learn about the
  state-of-the art solutions implemented at other organizations,
  open-source solutions and their respective pros and cons
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making
  appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency,
  resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
• Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute
  towards improvement in service resiliency, reliability, efficiency and
  management at scale
• 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

• Minimum of 15+ years of engineering experience OR equivalent combined
  work experience reflecting domain expertise as relevant to this
  position 
• Demonstrated experience of leading company-wide initiatives spanning
  multiple teams and organizations and leveraging deep domain expertise
  to influence tech roadmap planning and execution
• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across multiple teams
  and stakeholders to drive business outcomes 
• Demonstrated ability to balance execution and velocity with security,
  reliability, and efficiency
• Experience, mentoring, and investing in the development engineers and
  peers 

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building or maintaining observability solutions, such as
  designing and/or building telemetry collection, transport, and storage
  solutions
• Familiarity with open source and/or commercial observability
  technologies; familiarity with solutions in metrics, logs, and tracing
  domains