Software Engineer

Stripe · Seattle, WA · Posted

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

  • Conducting technical interviews;
  • Creating software, tooling and distributed systems for automating and managing data center network hardware and compute stacks;
  • Creating and operating shared infrastructure for Stripe’s Cardholder data environment;
  • Deployment tooling;
  • SOX compliance audit prep interviews, and remediations;
  • PCI compliance audit prep, interviews, and remediations;
  • Project management;
  • Mentoring junior engineers;
  • On-call responsibilities.

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, plus two (2) years of Software Development experience. Position also requires the following:

  • 2 years of experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and Terraform infrastructure automation;
  • 2 years of experience with reliability, scalability, and distributed systems principles;
  • 1 year of experience in Go and Ansible programming languages;
  • 1 year of experience in Puppet host configuration;
  • 1 year of experience in Ruby programming language;
  • 1 year of experience in Python programming language;
  • 1 year of experience in mentorship and leadership of junior software engineers;
  • 1 year of experience performing 24/7 on call rotations to support high-availability software systems;
  • 1 year of experience with monitoring and logging tools;
  • 1 year of experience with computer network concepts;
  • 1 year of experience in the knowledge of Linux operating system and subsystems;
  • 1 year of experience with cloud and application security best practices; and
  • 1 year of experience with PCI compliance monitoring, audit processes, and evidence collection.

Salary: $190,400.00 - $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% remote work 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. WA67

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About this role

Stripe is hiring for the role of Software Engineer in Seattle, WA. The posting asks for about 1+ years of experience. It mentions Python, AWS, Terraform, Linux, Leadership and Security.

Skills mentioned

  • Python
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Linux
  • Leadership
  • Security

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  • Pick two or three projects that use the technologies named in this posting and describe what you built and its result in one line each.
  • Be ready to explain your own code: why you chose a design, what went wrong and how you fixed it.
  • Practise the basics the role needs (data structures, API design, debugging) and keep a link to your code on GitHub.

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