Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure
- Your interpersonal skills are a strength for contributing to team culture and empowering developers through infrastructure tools.
- You naturally focus on users’ needs, which aligns with building infrastructure as a product centered around users.
- You can inspire the team and help maintain a positive, collaborative atmosphere.
- You may find the solitary, technical aspects like debugging distributed systems less engaging.
- The need for data-driven cost-performance tradeoffs and scalability decisions may not leverage your empathetic strengths.
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe, LLC. 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.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture. 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 infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale.
- Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in Software development.
Must also have 5 years of experience in each of the following:
- Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
- Building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs;
- Scaling distributed systems;
- Breaking down large complex systems;
- Identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions;
- Building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
- Working in a development team in AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP; and
- Programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.
Salary: $206,086.00 - $285,600.00/yr
This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.
40 hrs/week
50 % Telecommuting Permitted.
Multiple Positions Available.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA56
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Best personality fits for this role
Your knack for analyzing and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools matches the core technical requirement.
Read the INTP career guide →Your strategic thinking helps break down complex systems and design robust solutions, aligning with the need to make appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, cost, and latency.
Read the INTJ career guide →Your natural leadership and strategic vision help you contribute to team strategy, roadmap, and culture, as emphasized in the job description.
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