Stripe

FinTech

SoftwareEngineer,CoreInfrastructure

A$145–195k ~AI est. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid candidates.

The Brief

“Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure at Stripe. Skills: Distributed systems, Cloud infrastructure, Platform services, Observability. Design distributed cloud infrastructure. Build distributed cloud infrastructure”

Industry & Context.

FinTech
Problems you'll solve

Debugging distributed systems; Diagnosing low-level resource constraints; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years of professional experience, Experience building, deploying, and managing infrastructure on a major cloud provider, Engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale, Solid grasp of underlying operating system primitives, Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems, Diagnosing low-level resource constraints, Experience with operational excellence, Modern observability practices

Nice to Have

Experience with popular cloud technologies, Experience with Go or other systems languages, Experience with Linux OS internals, Performance optimization experience, Kernel-level troubleshooting experience, Experience working with Kubernetes clusters, Low-level container mechanics experience, Experience in networking and traffic systems at scale, Experience handling critical incidents for production systems

What You'll Do.

Design distributed cloud infrastructure

Build distributed cloud infrastructure

Maintain distributed cloud infrastructure

Build platform services

Maintain platform services

Scale infrastructure services

Automate infrastructure services

Ensure reliability of infrastructure services

Improve observability of infrastructure services

Participate in roadmap planning

Participate in prioritization

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaboration with product teams; Collaboration with various teams; Collaboration with external partners; Collaboration with open source community

Process & Methodology

Roadmap planning, Prioritization

Full Job Description

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 The Core Infrastructure team at Stripe is entrusted with developing and maintaining the infrastructure utilized by all product teams to create services that underpin all Stripe business operations. This includes defining and executing a vision that ensures industry-leading scale and availability, and actively balancing these concerns with efficiency, latency, and organizational health. We are committed to advancing new distributed services and scaling existing technologies across the industry, in close collaboration with various teams to support their current and future demands, and various external partners in the open source community. Our infrastructure supports businesses worldwide by processing payments, managing marketplaces, assisting entrepreneurs in launching internet businesses, and more. The Infrastructure organization comprises teams responsible for operating system components, databases, caching, high availability, disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, change management, and network edge infrastructure. What you'll do As a Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team that is in charge of building the core infrastructure used by product teams which support our business. Examples include control plane services responsible for managing our primary database and cache infrastructure as well as building automation around managing

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