Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

About Stripe

Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

Responsibilities

• Develop global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole.

• Work on latency-critical, time-sensitive and data redundancy solutions.

• Solve broad range of problems, including investigating Mongo write concerns, minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes, and develop new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers.

• Enable the company to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection.

• Write code, scope, design, implement, and deploy solutions using multiple technologies, including: Ruby, Java, Mongo, Postgres, and other necessary tools as required.

• Investigate issues in live, distributed production systems.

• Collaborate across the company to provide an understanding of multi-region architectures, high durability implementation patterns, and best practices.

• Learn, meet, and uphold high engineering standards through design and code review.

Minimum requirements

Must have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor’s progressive software development work experience. In the alternative, the employer is willing to accept a Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus three (3) years of software development work experience.

Must also have three (3) years of experience in each of the following:

• Go, Ruby, or Java programming languages;

• Database internals including data movement, leader election, and quorums;

• Cloud infrastructure services, including: S3, EBS, EC2, and VPCs, to deploy scalable applications;

• Designing and building Temporal workflows;

• Using Trino SQL for data analysis and visualization; and

• Designing fault-tolerant systems using data sharding and replication strategies.

Salary: $206,086 - $285,600/yr.

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting permitted.

Multiple Positions Available.

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. WA70