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

The Compute team at Stripe is in charge of building the core
infrastructure used by product teams to build micro-services which
support our business. This includes defining and driving the vision
necessary to achieve best of breed scale and availability. Some of the
technologies that we work with include Linux OS & Kernel,
Kubernetes, and AWS EC2. We continuously invest in building new
distributed services and scaling existing technologies while working
with various teams to meet their current and future needs. 

Stripe’s infrastructure powers businesses all over the world. We process
payments, run marketplaces, help entrepreneurs start an internet
business from anywhere in the world, and more. The Compute organization
is composed of teams that manage our OS components, cloud
infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, and
deployments. 

What you’ll do

As a Distributed Systems Engineer for Compute, you will be part of a
team that is in charge of building the core infrastructure used by
product teams to build micro-services which support our business. You
will also build a great customer experience for internal Stripe teams
using your infrastructure and play a key role in enabling Stripe’s
infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale.

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. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a
requirement. 

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure services
  
• Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of
  infrastructure services
  
• Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers
  
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritisation
  

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. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a
requirement

Minimum requirements

• 2-10 years of professional experience in a software development role
  
• Experience in managing Kubernetes clusters
  
• Experience using one of the major cloud providers - AWS/Azure/OCI/GCP
  
• Experience with Linux OS
  
• A strong engineering background in infrastructure services
  
• 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/GCP
  
• Experience with Go