Senior Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Senior Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure
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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.
At Stripe we create infrastructure and tools that drive global economic and technological progress. Were committed to the long haul and our vision is guided by five key objectives:
- Grow Internet-Enabled Commerce: We design APIs products and infrastructure that expand the internet economy empowering businesses everywhere.
- Empower Upstarts: By simplifying operations for new companies and leveling the playing field we enable more startups to launch and compete effectively against established players.
- Accelerate Globalization: The internet dissolves physical boundaries. We believe anyone whether in Niger or New York should have equal opportunities to start a business and access services seamlessly.
- Encourage Better Products: Our goal isnt just more commerce; we aim to elevate the quality of products and services. We focus on how Stripe is utilized striving to be a catalyst for innovation.
- Advance Developer Tools and Infrastructure: The way Stripes services are built and deployed is crucial. Millions of businesses from major enterprises to ambitious startups rely on Stripe to accept payments grow their revenue and unlock new opportunities. We provide best-in-class infrastructure and tools to support their success.
We have an immense amount of work ahead! At Stripe you have a unique opportunity to make the global economy accessible to everyone while doing the most impactful work of your career!
About the team
The Infrastructure team at Stripe is responsible for core capabilities that empower all Stripe product teams to deliver exceptional services. We define and drive the vision for our platform aiming for optimal durability scale and availability while carefully balancing cost and recovery time. With a scale growth of 50-60% YoY we maintain Stripes six nines of availability all while ensuring efficiency and reducing the operational load of our teams.
At Stripe we leverage a range of cutting-edge technologies to deliver exceptional deployment and scalability worldwide. Our Compute teams utilize Linux OS Kubernetes and advanced cloud computing while our Storage teams manage one of the largest non-relational and relational storage systems crucial to all data flows at Stripe. Our Networking teams have effectively shielded Stripe from numerous large-scale DDoS attacks and improved latency for both internal systems and our partners. We are dedicated to continuously developing new distributed infrastructure capabilities and scaling existing technologies. By maintaining strong ties to the open-source community we ensure that we stay at the forefront of infrastructure innovation. Through collaboration with teams within Stripe and across the industry and the open-source community we aim to advance the state of the art in durable reliable scalable efficient and automated infrastructure.
What youll do
As a Senior Staff Engineer you will play a pivotal role in defining and driving the evolution of Stripes Core Infrastructure. Your expertise and influence will empower our teams and the business to scale effectively while achieving an exceptional price/performance ratio. Youll collaborate with engineers across the company to design and build large-scale capabilities all while enhancing our internal engineering standards tooling and processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design planning construction and maintenance of Compute Storage and Networking systems utilized throughout Stripe.
- Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making across Core Infrastructure various Infrastructure teams and Stripes platform and product teams.
- Mentor and cultivate the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe.
- Influence and participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
- Debug production issues across services and various levels of the stack.
- Focus on scaling and automating infrastructure services.
- Spearhead initiatives to enhance reliability and observability.
- Collaborate with the leadership team to identify current and future infrastructure needs across Stripe understand specific requirements and prioritize both short-term and long-term solutions.
Who you are
Were looking for someone with a strong background in compute and/or storage/databases and/or networking cloud infrastructure 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
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.
- 15 years of professional experience in a software development or DevOps automation role.
- A strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure and/or platform services including one or more of the following: storage databases compute networking.
- Experience leading projects on a cross-team and company-wide scale.
- Experience optimizing the reliability and security of distributed systems.
- Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime.
- Experience mentoring engineers at various stages in their careers.
- Experience developing maintaining and debugging distributed systems.
- Experience driving a culture of operational excellence with a deep understanding of metrics alerts and dashboards.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in a development team in AWS/Azure/OCI/Google
- Experience with AWS network components (VPC security groups DNS Route 53 NLB gateways etc.)
- Experience with databases (MongoDB PostgreSQL Cassandra MySQL)
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Terraform
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
