Requirements

• 6+ years of industry software engineering experience (does not include internships or co-ops)
• Ability 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 coding skills in any programming language (we understand new languages can be learned on the job so our interview process is language agnostic)
• Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
• Interest in working as a generalist across varying technologies and stacks to solve problems and delight both internal and external users

Nice to Haves

• Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
• Experience leading projects
• Focuses on the needs of our users, both internal and external
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

What you'll be doing

• 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

Perks and Benefits

• You'll have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career