Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Stripe•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

The Infrastructure team at Stripe owns core components used by all product teams to build micro-services which support our business. This includes defining and driving the vision necessary to achieve best of breed scale and availability. Some of the technologies that we work with include Linux OS, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, and AWS networking components. We continuously invest in building new distributed services and scaling existing technologies while working with various teams to meet their current and future needs. Stripe’s infrastructure powers businesses all over the world. We process payments, run marketplaces, help entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world, and more. The Compute organization is composed of teams that manage our OS components, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, and deployments. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe’s infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. Your solutions will allow our business to scale and achieve a best in class price/performance ratio. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer in Compute, you will play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe’s infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. Your solutions will allow our business to scale and achieve a best in class price/performance ratio. You'll also work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

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
A strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure services
Experience optimising the reliability and security of distributed systems
Experience with 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

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 the shared compute needs across Stripe, understand their specific requirements and prioritise solutions

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