Backend Engineer, Core Technology
Builds and maintains core infrastructure systems including compute, networking, and data serving at massive scale. Requires 2+ years experience with distributed systems and strong coding skills in Go, Java, or C++.
About the job
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
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 structure 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, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
- Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
- Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production
Skills
Go, Java, C++, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Trino, Apache Pinot, Elasticsearch, Microservices, Data Pipelines
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