Staff Software Engineer,

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

In this role, you will be joining the High Availability and Disaster Recovery team. At Stripe, availability is a core feature of our products. This team designs and builds new solutions to allow latency-critical, stateful applications to survive any type of disaster. We build distributed systems on top of unreliable architecture to provide highly available and resilient customer solutions. This team is creating greenfield solutions which will serve as the basis for Stripe’s architecture 5, 10, or 20 years into the future.

What it asks for · 6

• 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

What the job covers

• 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

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• requirements6×
• distributed5×
• engineering5×
• architecture4×
• solutions4×
• systems4×
• build3×
• data3×
• design3×
• disaster3×
• improve3×
• meet3×
• minimum requirements3×
• resilient3×
• service3×
• availability2×

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