Staff Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Staff Software Engineer will build distributed systems and global architecture that improve availability, resilience, and disaster recovery for latency-critical applications.

Responsibilities:

• Actively work with leaders and engineers across the company to understand and identify opportunities to improve Stripe’s reliability posture
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust distributed services, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
• Innovate, design and implement new products and prototypes to improve service resiliency, engineering velocity and management at scale
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
• Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes

Requirements:

• Have 10 years or more of distributed and cloud native software development experience at a highly-scaled or hyperscaler service
• Have a deep understanding of how to build scalable, resilient, distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and mission critical systems
• Have experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large projects across many teams
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving diverse stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Have a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial, proactive and self-driven
• Have a strong history of being a technical lead and mentor across several engineering teams