Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe 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.

About the team

Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe’s systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe’s people. You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas within Core Infrastructure. We’re the home for Stripe's critical tier0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching and High assurance engineering). We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability, availability, efficiency and scalability of these systems.

What you’ll do

We have a ton of important work to do, which is why we’re hiring! The ideal candidate is excited about scalability, reliability,, eager to lead a team solving challenging distributed systems problems, and committed to investing in partnerships with other Stripe engineers to establish empathy and understand their use cases. Our technologies include AWS Aurora, Mongo, ETCD, Kafka, Kubernetes, Go, Ruby, Java, and others.

• Work with engineers and other leaders at Stripe to understand and capture opportunities to better leverage our database platform, providing fault isolation, resource isolation, data locality, security, etc.
• Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and ease-of-use
• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering to provide a wonderful user experience

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.

Minimum requirements

• 8+ years of experience working with online database technologies - PostgreSQL/MySQL/Mongo/Cassandra
• Managed teams that shipped and operated critical software services, particularly in the open source, database domain 
• Built horizontal scale-out, sharded distributed data platforms
• A strong quantitative and analytical background
• Worked with geographically distributed teams
• Successfully recruited and built great teams
• Worked with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• A clear and persuasive approach in writing and in person

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with globally replicated, sharded database platforms
• Built and scaled infrastructure platforms to millions of QPS
• Familiar with Go