Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Stripe · US-Remote, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco · 8127 Core Infrastructure · listed June 14, 2024

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The shape of it

Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked
2–12 years
Where
Remote
Requirements listed
7
Length
622 words

In the posting’s own words

Team matching—exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. Find more information on our team matching process here .

What it asks for · 7

  • Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above
  • Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc.)
  • 2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms
  • Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems
  • Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
  • Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
  • Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial

Also a plus

  • Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems
  • Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external
  • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

What the job covers

  • Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure
  • Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
  • Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe
  • Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems2×
  • Microservices
Data
  • Data pipelines
  • Data warehouse
  • Elasticsearch
Languages
  • C++
  • Go
  • Java
Models & research
  • LLM
  • Machine learning
Product & design
  • Roadmap

Words the posting leans on

  • experience7×
  • infrastructure7×
  • services7×
  • systems7×
  • data6×
  • build4×
  • customer4×
  • distributed4×
  • engineering4×
  • platform4×
  • productivity4×
  • requirements4×
  • developer3×
  • infrastructure responsible3×
  • internal3×
  • matching3×

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