Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Stripe · Seattle, San Francisco
About this role
## 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. **About the team** The Infrastructure team at Stripe owns core components used by all product teams to build micro-services that support our business. This includes defining and driving the vision necessary to achieve best-of-breed scale and availability. Technologies include Linux OS, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, and AWS networking components. Stripe’s infrastructure powers businesses all over the world. The Compute organization manages OS components, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, and deployments. As a **Staff Engineer**, you’ll play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe’s infrastructure to power all of our products globally and at scale—helping the business scale with a best-in-class price/performance ratio. ## What you’ll do As a **Staff Infrastructure Engineer in Compute**, you’ll play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe’s infrastructure to power all of our products globally and at scale. You’ll work with engineers across the company to build new features at large scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes. ### Responsibilities - Design, plan, build, and maintain container infrastructure used by all Stripe service teams - Lead technical conversations and decision-making with other infrastructure and backend teams - Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe - Participate in roadmap planning and prioritisation - Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack - Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services - Identify shared compute needs across Stripe, understand specific requirements, and prioritise solutions ## Who you are We’re looking for someone with a strong background in networking cloud infrastructure who meets the minimum requirements. If you meet these requirements, you’re encouraged to apply. Preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. ### Minimum requirements - BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field - 15+ years of professional experience in a software development or devops automation role - Networking experience (development or system administration) over a number of years - Experience with Kubernetes - Experience leading projects on a cross-team or company-wide scale - Strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure services - Experience optimising 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 using one of the major cloud providers (AWS/Azure/OCI/Google) - Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems - Experience with ops culture and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards
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