Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Join Stripe as a Software Engineer - Infrastructure

About Stripe

Stripe is a leading financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet by providing a platform that millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer in the Infrastructure team at Stripe, you will be responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe’s systems. You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Who You Are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• Strong software engineering skills and a passion for infrastructure.
• 2+ years of professional hands-on software development experience.
• 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.
• Ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to write high quality code in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++.
• Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems.
• Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external.
• Holds yourself and others to a high bar when working with production.

Hybrid Work at Stripe

This role is available either in an office or a remote location (typically, 35+ miles or 56+ km from a Stripe office). Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.

Pay and Benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,500 - $269,200. 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.