Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure

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

  • 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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About this role

Stripe is hiring for the role of Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure in Seattle, WA. The posting asks for about 5+ years of experience. It mentions Python, Java, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Product roadmap.

Skills mentioned

  • Python
  • Java
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Product roadmap

How to prepare your application

  • Use these exact words in your resume where they are true for you: Python, Java, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Applicant tracking systems match on them.
  • Describe systems you kept running: uptime, deploy frequency, cost saved or incidents reduced.
  • Be ready to talk through an outage you handled, step by step.
  • Show hands-on use of the tools listed here, not just names on a list.
  • The posting asks for 5+ years, so put your most relevant experience at the top.

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