Software Engineer, Stripe

Observability, Infrastructure & Corporate Tech

$163.1-244.7k

OTE

The range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role

Prometheus
Grafana
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

Job no longer available

Stripe

A financial infrastructure platform for businesses

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Job no longer available

$163.1-244.7k

OTE

The range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role

Prometheus
Grafana
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

FintechB2BPaymentsCredit cardsFinancial Services

Company mission

To increase the GDP of the internet

Role

Who you are

  • 6+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
  • Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
  • Experience building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs
  • Experience optimizing the end to end performance of distributed systems
  • Experience with scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment
  • Experience with resource optimization in online or batch processing systems
  • Comfort breaking down large, complex systems; identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities; and making data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions
  • Experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers

Desirable

  • Experience building or maintaining observability solutions, such as designing and/or building telemetry collection, transport, and storage solutions
  • Familiarity with open source and/or commercial observability technologies; familiarity with solutions in metrics, logs, and tracing domains

What the job involves

  • The Observability team at Stripe provides engineers, merchants, and organizational leaders with the infrastructure and experiences to diagnose any operational issues with Stripe online services
  • We aim to do this reliably and cheaply at scale
  • Our group is going on an ambitious journey to reimagine what an industry leading observability solution looks like
  • We are building a new observability platform from the ground up as a core foundational cornerstone for all of Stripe’s infrastructure & product services
  • We'll use modern distributed computing concepts and open source observability components that will scale with Stripe’s growth over the coming 10 years
  • We envision a modern platform that can efficiently scale to multiple petabytes of logs and billions of metrics on a daily basis
  • We're looking for a Software Engineer with experience designing, building and maintaining high-scale, big-data distributed systems
  • You will join the team to deliver an observability solution that breaks the scaling records and exceeds the reliability and performance expectations of client teams
  • Responsibilities
  • Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture
  • Actively work with engineers across the company to understand and identify observability needs
  • Understand our current system architecture, learn about the state-of-the art solutions implemented at other organizations, open-source solutions and their respective pros and cons
  • Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
  • Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement in service resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale
  • Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.

More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.

To further expand its position, the company is looking to triple its presence in Ireland, and extend its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil and India. Its latest venture, coming atop significant new funds, is to partner with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that will monetize OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhance Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forwards with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)

Mar 2023

$6.5bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Mar 2021

$600m

SERIES H

Total funding: $8.7bn

Company benefits

  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
  • Fertility benefits and parental leave

Company values

  • Built for builders - The best reason to work at Stripe is that you will have colleagues who support and challenge you to do the best work of your career. We combine a big-picture mindset with obsessive attention to the details, down to the last pixel, API parameter, and word.
  • An environment of growth - We care about results more than CVs. We value managers who remain experts while developing talent and designing successful orgs. You can also have a big impact and advance far without managing anyone. We want you to take what you’ve been hired to do, and show us how it’s done – you might create something we never would have imagined. We have had account managers start a publishing arm, interns who have run business units, and hackathon participants who have built company-defining products.
  • Fast-paced, detail oriented - We balance innovation with scrupulous attention to every bit and byte involved in the movement of money – because we can’t do our job well unless we do both. When we started, we emailed every API error to everyone at the company. Now, we have more than 250 million API requests a day – and we still care about each one.
  • Voraciously curious - We wish there was a book that described what we need to do next (we’d even publish it), but since there isn’t, we all have to write it together. You will need to find answers to questions you’ve never been asked before. Sometimes, you will be the first person ever to contemplate a particular problem. We want people who devour books for fun and approach new challenges with eager curiosity.

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Patrick Collison

(Content Strategist)

Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.

John Collison

(President)

Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.

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