# Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $206k – $286k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, GCP, Ruby, Go, Python, Java, Infrastructure As Code, Open-Source Tools
**Posted:** 2026-09-11

> Designs, implements, and operates scalable online database infrastructure and distributed systems, improving resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and cost performance. Requires a bachelor’s degree and 5 years of software development experience with cloud platforms and Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, processes, and culture.
- Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions while balancing reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity, and cost.
- Design and implement software solutions that improve infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale.
- Uphold high engineering standards and improve codebases and processes.

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open-source tools.
- 5 years of experience building infrastructure as a product centered around user needs.
- 5 years of experience scaling distributed systems.
- 5 years of experience breaking down large, complex systems.
- 5 years of experience identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities and making data-driven cost-performance tradeoffs.
- 5 years of experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers.
- 5 years of experience working in a development team using AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or Google Cloud.
- 5 years of experience with Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $206,086–$285,600 per year.
- Additional benefits may include equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses, a 401(k) plan, medical, dental, and vision benefits, and wellness stipends.

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