Staff Engineer, Compute

Responsibilities

• Drive team’s technical vision, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture
• Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate trade-offs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost
• Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement in infrastructure resilience, reliability, efficiency and management at scale
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems
• Proven track record of building large-scale complex distributed systems; identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities; and making data-driven cost performance trade-offs to influence design decisions
• Experience building and operating infrastructure; tools that empower developers/product teams to deliver business value
• Experience leading strong technical teams that balance operational excellence; collaboration; user needs

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in Linux OS internals; systems programming
• Experience with containerization; package management; distribution technologies
• Strong background in performance analysis; systems debugging; API design
• Experience with infrastructure automation
• Experience with multiple programming languages (Go; Python)

Benefits

• Equity
• Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, vision benefits
• Wellness stipends

About the Company

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.

Stripe manages core cloud infrastructure, including server fleet, containers, and resource automation, for thousands of services. This infrastructure is vital for enabling Stripe’s products globally with scalable and resilient solutions.