Backend Engineer, Core TechnologyActive

The opportunity

Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe's systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe's people.

What you'll do

  • Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure

  • Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization

  • Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe

  • Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack

What they're looking for

  • Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above
  • Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc.)
  • –12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to: write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms
  • Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and: contribute to your peers' success
  • Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience: in various forums to drive the right outcome
  • Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility,: and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
  • Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems