Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Sydney, NSW
Permanent
Full-time

2 months ago

Who we areAbout StripeStripe 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 teamThe Core Infrastructure team at Stripe is entrusted with developing and maintaining the infrastructure utilized by all product teams to create services that underpin all Stripe business operations. This includes defining and executing a vision that ensures industry-leading scale and availability, and actively balancing these concerns with efficiency, latency, and organizational health. We are committed to advancing new distributed services and scaling existing technologies across the industry, in close collaboration with various teams to support their current and future demands, and various external partners in the open source community.Our infrastructure supports businesses worldwide by processing payments, managing marketplaces, assisting entrepreneurs in launching internet businesses, and more. The Infra organization comprises teams responsible for operating system components, databases, caching, high availability, disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, change management, and network edge infrastructure.What you'll doAs a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe's infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. Your solutions will allow our business to scale and achieve a best in class price/performance ratio. You'll also work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.Responsibilities

Design, plan, build, and maintain container infrastructure used by all Stripe service teams

Lead technical conversations and decision making with other infrastructure and backend teams

Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe

Participate in roadmap planning and prioritisation

Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack

Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services

Identify the shared compute needs across Stripe, understand their specific requirements and prioritise solutions

Who you areWe're looking for someone with a strong background in networking cloud infrastructure who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.Minimum requirements

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field

12+ years of professional experience in a software development

Experience leading projects on a cross-team or company-wide scale

A strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure services

Experience optimising the reliability and security of distributed systems

Experience with scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime

Experience mentoring engineers at various stages in their careers

Experience using one of the major cloud providers - AWS/Azure/OCI/Google

Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems

Experience with ops culture and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards

Preferred qualifications

Experience in a development team in AWS/Azure/OCI/Google

3+ years experience with Go

Experience with AWS network components (VPC, security groups, DNS Route 53, NLB, gateways, etc.)

Experience with Terraform

Hybrid work at StripeOffice-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.Pay and benefitsThe annual salary range for this role in the primary location is A$207,200 - A$310,800. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate's experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant's location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.Office locationsSydneyTeamInfrastructure & Corporate TechJob typeFull time

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