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 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.

What you’ll do

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
  

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

• 3+ 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
  

Preferred qualifications

• 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