Backend Engineer, Core Tech, Canada
Backend Engineer, Core Tech, Canada
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Job Description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the organization
Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability scale performance and cost of Stripes systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripes people.
You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including:
- Core Infrastructure Were the home for Stripes 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 Were responsible for the productivity of all developers at Stripe. Ensure Stripes engineers have a reliable fast and easytouse inner dev loop to maximize productivity while building everything from lowlatency microservices to largescale data pipelines and machine learning models
- Data Platform Were responsible for offering data serving infrastructure spanning across data warehouse analytics streaming analytics and search capabilities. The stack is supported by a collection of internally developed large scale distributed services and several popular open source technologies like Trino/Presto Apache Pinot Hive Metastore ElasticSearch etc. The systems we own support all of the data serving needs of high scale services and thousands of individual Stripes across the company.
- Admin Platform We empower Stripes to quickly build secure and delightful internal products in service of their users.
- Support Experience We build and improve our 24x7 email phone and chat support channels our Premium Support and Enterprise Services products our Support Site and more. This includes how users get help within our products how they get in touch with us when they have questions and how our teams use internal tools to answer those questions.
- Service Platform We enable engineering teams at Stripe to easily write and ship useful services that correctly reliably and efficiently leverage platform capabilities.
Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages.Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience location etc.More information on our team matching process can be found here.
What youll do
You will work on projects that span technologies systems and processes where you will 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 you are
Were 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
- 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)
- 212 years of professional handson software development experience able to write wellfactored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structure and algorithms
- Handson 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 responsibility and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
- Focuses on the needs of our users both internal and external
- Holds yourself and others to a high bar when working with production
Employment Type
Full Time
