Join Stripe's High Availability and Disaster Recovery team to build resilient systems that enhance global economic infrastructure.
Posted by employer 17 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 3 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust distributed services
- Innovate, design and implement new products and prototypes
- Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders
- Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture
- Uphold high engineering standards and improve codebase
Must have
- 10 years or more of distributed and cloud native software development experience
- Deep understanding of scalable, resilient, distributed systems
- Experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large projects
- Thrive in a collaborative environment
- High level of autonomy and responsibility
- Strong history of being a technical lead and mentor
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Staff Software Engineer will focus on enhancing Stripe's global architecture by developing resilient, latency-sensitive distributed systems that ensure high availability and data protection. Key skills include extensive experience in cloud-native software development and a deep understanding of scalable architectures. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a strong background in leading complex projects and mentoring others. The team operates in a distributed manner, emphasizing collaboration among remote engineers.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 9, 2026. Last confirmed on Stripe's careers page October 9, 2026.
- distributed systems appears in 11.1% of 306 comparable staff backend roles in United States; cloud-native appears in 0.7% of 306 comparable staff backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, role remote?
- Yes — Stripe lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: MongoDB, cloud-native, distributed systems.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Stripe targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, role at Stripe.
From the original posting
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
In this role, you will be joining the High Availability and Disaster Recovery team. At Stripe, availability is a core feature of our products. This team designs and builds new solutions to allow latency-critical, stateful applications to survive any type of disaster. We build distributed systems on top of unreliable architecture to provide highly available and resilient customer solutions. This team is creating greenfield solutions which will serve as the basis for Stripe’s architecture 5, 10, or 20 years into the future.
This is a distributed team with many remote engineers. You are encouraged to apply if you meet the minimum requirements and are able to work from anywhere in the United States or Canada.
What you’ll do
You will help develop our global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole. You will work on latency-critical solutions where every millisecond matters and data redundancy is a hard requirement. You will learn quickly and work on a broad range of problems - one day may be investigating Mongo write concerns, the next may be minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes, followed by developing new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers. Your work will enable Stripe to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection which have historically been impossible.
Responsibilities
- Actively work with leaders and engineers across the company to understand and identify opportunities to improve Stripe’s reliability posture
- Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust distributed services, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
- Innovate, design and implement new products and prototypes to improve service resiliency, engineering velocity and management at scale
- Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
- Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture
- Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes
Who you are
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.
Minimum requirements
- Have 10 years or more of distributed and cloud native software development experience at a highly-scaled or hyperscaler service
- Have a deep understanding of how to build scalable, resilient, distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and mission critical systems.
- Have experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large projects across many teams
- Thrive in a collaborative environment involving diverse stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Have a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial, proactive and self-driven
- Have a strong history of being a technical lead and mentor across several engineering teams