# Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Sydney, Australia
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Services, AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, Go, Rust, C++, Linux, Kubernetes, Observability, Distributed Tracing, Networking
**Posted:** 2026-09-01

> Build and operate distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services that support product teams globally. The role requires 5+ years of software development experience, strong distributed-systems expertise, and experience with cloud infrastructure, reliability, and observability.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services.
- Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services.
- Operate services, debug issues, and support internal customers.
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in a software development role.
- Experience building, deploying, and managing infrastructure on a major cloud provider.
- Strong engineering background building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale, with a solid grasp of underlying operating system primitives.
- Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems, including diagnosing low-level resource constraints.
- Experience with operational excellence and modern observability practices, including distributed tracing, structured logging, and system-level metrics.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud.
- Experience with Go or other systems languages such as Rust, C, or C++.
- Experience with Linux OS internals, performance optimization, and kernel-level troubleshooting.
- Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and low-level container mechanics.
- Experience in networking and traffic systems at scale.
- Experience handling critical incidents for production systems.

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