Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure
Stripe · Seattle, WA · Global Operations · listed September 3, 2026
The shape of it
Seniority
Senior
Experience asked
5+ years
Where
Not stated
Stated pay
$206,086 – $285,600
Requirements listed
8
Length
328 words
In the posting’s own words
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA56
What it asks for · 8
- Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
- Building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs;
- Scaling distributed systems;
- Breaking down large complex systems;
- Identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions;
- Building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
- Working in a development team in AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP; and
- Programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.
What the job covers
- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture. Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost.
- Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement in infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale.
- Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes.
Tools and skills named
Cloud & infra
- Distributed systems2×
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
Languages
- Go
- Java
- Python
- Ruby
Product & design
- Roadmap
Words the posting leans on
- design3×
- engineering3×
- infrastructure3×
- building2×
- computer2×
- contribute2×
- cost2×
- development2×
- distributed systems2×
- experience2×
- implement2×
- reliability2×
- resiliency2×
- software2×
- solutions2×
- tools2×
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