Backend Engineer, Core Technology

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

You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including:

Core Infrastructure—We're the home for Stripe's critical tier0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching and High assurance engineering). We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability, availability, effic...

You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship great code every day.
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

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.
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.)
2–12+ 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
Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external
Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production