Join Stripe as a Software Engineer to develop high availability and disaster recovery solutions for a global financial infrastructure platform.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 3 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Develop global architecture for high availability
- Work on latency-critical and data redundancy solutions
- Investigate issues in live production systems
- Collaborate on multi-region architectures
- Write and deploy solutions using multiple technologies
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5 years of software development experience
- 3 years of experience in Go, Ruby, or Java
- 3 years of experience with cloud infrastructure services
- 3 years of experience designing fault-tolerant systems
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Software Engineer focuses on developing resilient global architectures that ensure high availability and data protection for Stripe's services. Key skills include proficiency in programming languages like Go, Ruby, or Java, as well as experience with cloud infrastructure and database internals. This position is ideal for candidates with significant software development experience, particularly those who have worked on fault-tolerant systems and multi-region architectures. The team emphasizes collaboration and high engineering standards, contributing to Stripe's mission of enhancing the global economy.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today on Joblaze — tracked directly from Stripe's career page.
- Stripe has 684 other open roles including Finance & Strategy Partner, Partner Marketing Operations Manager, Internal Audit - Regulatory Lead, EMEA.
- 1979 active Go roles on Joblaze right now.
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- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Pays more than 81% of the 963 salaried Go roles we track (median $164,200). See Go salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery role remote?
- It's hybrid — Stripe expects some on-site time in Seattle, WA, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Stripe lists $206,086–$285,600 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery role.
- Where is the role based?
- Stripe is hiring for this position in Seattle, WA, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: EBS, EC2, Go, Java, MongoDB, PostgreSQL.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Stripe targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery role at Stripe.
From the original posting
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
- Develop global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole.
- Work on latency-critical, time-sensitive and data redundancy solutions.
- Solve broad range of problems, including investigating Mongo write concerns, minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes, and develop new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers.
- Enable the company to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection.
- Write code, scope, design, implement, and deploy solutions using multiple technologies, including: Ruby, Java, Mongo, Postgres, and other necessary tools as required.
- Investigate issues in live, distributed production systems.
- Collaborate across the company to provide an understanding of multi-region architectures, high durability implementation patterns, and best practices.
- Learn, meet, and uphold high engineering standards through design and code review.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor’s progressive software development work experience. In the alternative, the employer is willing to accept a Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus three (3) years of software development work experience.
Must also have three (3) years of experience in each of the following:
- Go, Ruby, or Java programming languages;
- Database internals including data movement, leader election, and quorums;
- Cloud infrastructure services, including: S3, EBS, EC2, and VPCs, to deploy scalable applications;
- Designing and building Temporal workflows;
- Using Trino SQL for data analysis and visualization; and
- Designing fault-tolerant systems using data sharding and replication strategies.
Salary: $206,086 - $285,600/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. WA70
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