Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Stripe · Sydney, Australia · 8125 Core Compute · listed June 12, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
5+ years
Where
Not stated
Requirements listed
5
Length
515 words

In the posting’s own words

The Core Infrastructure team at Stripe is entrusted with developing and maintaining the infrastructure utilized by all product teams to create services that underpin all Stripe business operations. This includes defining and executing a vision that ensures industry-leading scale and availability, and actively balancing these concerns with efficiency, latency, and organizational health. We are committed to advancing new distributed services and scaling existing technologies across the industry, in close collaboration with various teams to support their current and future demands, and various external partners in the open source community.

What it asks for · 5

  • 5+ years of professional experience in a software development role
  • Experience building, deploying, and managing infrastructure on a major cloud provider
  • A strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale, with a solid grasp of underlying operating system primitives
  • Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems, including diagnosing low-level resource constraints
  • Experience with operational excellence and modern observability practices, including distributed tracing, structured logging, and system-level metrics

Also a plus

  • Experience with popular cloud technologies — AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle Cloud
  • Experience with Go or other systems languages (e.g., Rust, C/C++)
  • Experience with Linux OS internals, performance optimization, and kernel-level troubleshooting
  • Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and low-level container mechanics
  • Experience in networking and traffic systems at scale
  • Experience handling critical incidents for production systems

What the job covers

  • Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services
  • Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services
  • Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers
  • Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra
  • Distributed systems2×
  • Linux2×
  • Observability2×
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
Languages
  • C++
  • Go
  • Rust
Product & design
  • Roadmap

Words the posting leans on

  • infrastructure12×
  • experience11×
  • services8×
  • systems7×
  • cloud6×
  • distributed5×
  • building4×
  • managing4×
  • requirements4×
  • scale4×
  • support4×
  • build3×
  • networking3×
  • product3×
  • software3×
  • automation2×

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