Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Who we are About Stripe Stripe 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. About the team 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, efficiency, and scalability of these systems. Developer Infrastructure—We're responsible for the productivity of all developers at Stripe. Ensure Stripe's engineers have a reliable, fast, and easy-to-use inner dev loop to maximize productivity while building everything from low-latency microservices to large-scale [... source excerpt omitted ...] uring final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. Find more information on our team matching process here. What you'll do You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship great code every day. Responsibilities 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 Who yo [... source excerpt omitted ...] imum 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. Minimum requirements 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 te