Software Engineer, Distributed Caching Platform
Software Engineer, Distributed Caching Platform
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Job Description
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the worlds 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Our infrastructure supports businesses worldwide by processing payments managing marketplaces assisting entrepreneurs in launching internet businesses and more. The Core Infra organization comprises teams responsible for operating system components databases (MongoDB PostgreSQL) caching high availability & disaster recovery AWS cloud infrastructure Linux servers container orchestration mesh networking service discovery change management and network edge Distributed Caching Platform team within the Core Infrastructure organization has built a sophisticated highly scalable and ultra-low latency tier-0 caching platform. This mission-critical infrastructure serves as the backbone for a multitude of Stripe products. Operating with remarkable efficiency the platform adeptly manages over 60 million requests per second maintaining an impressively low latency of less than 2 ms and upholding a stellar five 9s of reliability. As we advance into the next phase of expansion and innovation we are actively seeking highly skilled engineers to join our team. This presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of Stripes fastest-growing platforms where you will play a key role in delivering the next set of groundbreaking features. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and thrive in a dynamic high-growth environment we invite you to be part of our journey in shaping the future of our caching platform.
What youll do
As a Backend engineeryou will be part of a team that is in charge of building the core caching infrastructure used by product teams to build micro-services which support our business. Examples include control plane services responsible for managing cache infrastructure solving complex problems such as replication of cached data across regions in real time and scaling the infrastructure to support the next phase of growth. You will also build a great customer experience for internal Stripe teams that build on your software to power all of our products globally and at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design plan build and maintain storage / databases compute and networking infrastructure used by all Stripe service teams
- Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale.
- Maintain a collaborative environment engaging in discussions and decision-making processes with stakeholders within various domains at Stripe.
- Work on scaling automation reliability and observability of infrastructure services
- Identify the shared infrastructure needs across Stripe understand their specific requirements and prioritise solutions
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
- 3 years of experience in delivering extending and maintaining large scale distributed systems.
- Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices especially in the financial industry.
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
- Experience using one of the major cloud providers
- A strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale
- Experience developing maintaining and debugging distributed systems
- Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics alarms and dashboards
- Experience handling critical incidents for production systemsThink about systems services and platforms and write high quality code. We work mostly in Java Go and Ruby.
You are capable of working in ambiguous fast-moving environments and have a curiosity to learn the domain to a deep level. - Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience on popular cloud technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP/Oracle Cloud
- Experience working with Distributed cache services like AWS Elasticache and technologies like memcached Redis etc.
- Experience with Linux OS
- If you meet the minimum requirements we encourage you to apply. Preferred qualifications are beneficial but not mandatory.
Pay and benefits
Stripe does not yet include pay ranges in job postings in every country. Stripe strongly values pay transparency and is working toward pay transparency globally.
Hybrid work at Stripe
Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.
Employment Type
Full Time
