Data Infrastructure—We're responsible for offering data serving infrastructure spanning across data warehouse analytics, streaming analytics, and search capabilities. The stack is supported by a collection of internally developed large-scale distributed services and several popular open-source technologies like Trino/Presto, Apache Pinot, Hive Metastore, ElasticSearch etc. The systems we own support all of the data serving needs of high-scale services and thousands of individual Stripes across the company.
Admin Platform—We empower Stripes to quickly build secure and delightful internal products in service of their users.
Service Platform—We enable engineering teams at Stripe to easily write and ship useful services that correctly, reliably, and efficiently leverage platform capabilities.
Developer Productivity AI—We're responsible for doubling Stripe's engineering velocity through effective use of LLMs. We own Minions, Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents.
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 you'll do
You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll design, build, test, and ship great code every day.
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 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
Preferred qualifications
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