Software Engineer, Service Network

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 Service Networking team’s mission is to streamline and accelerate the onboarding and configuration of the network for all of Stripe’s service teams so they can focus on building their applications.

The Service Networking team at Stripe has two broad responsibilities:

  • The first is to design, build and operate services and infrastructure for nearly all of Stripe. It owns a “Service Discovery” system that makes it possible for applications to find each other in Stripe’s internal network and a Service Mesh that makes it easy to interconnect modern applications in Stripe’s network with security, observability, failure handling, and traffic shaping.
  • The second is to design and implement Stripe’s low-level cloud network systems. Our vision is to build a center of excellence for designing and implementing Stripe’s low-level network systems, cloud based architecture and tooling.

What you’ll do

As a network systems engineer, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of Stripe’s cloud-based networks. This will involve work at many different layers of the network, from designing & implementing layer 3 networks to building and maintaining critical layer 7 authenticating proxies. You will also be responsible for developing tooling and supporting Service Mesh and Service Discovery and streamlining the operational load.

Responsibilities

  • Build a great customer experience for internal Stripe teams using your infrastructure
  • Design, build, and maintain Stripe’s cloud networks
  • Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of critical network services
  • Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers
  • Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
  • Onboard new engineers and present brown bag sessions to share your knowledge
  • Develop self-service tooling for users to troubleshoot networking issues for their service
  • Develop effective mechanisms to troubleshoot low level networking issues
  • Streamline onboarding experience for customers to Mesh and Service discovery

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

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field
  • 2+ years of professional experience in a software development role
  • 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 networking systems
  • Experience with ops culture and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards

Preferred qualifications

  • A strong engineering background and interest in systems challenges at scale
  • Experience in Go, C++, Python, C or similar languages; YAML, AWS, and Linux
  • Experience with scaling and migrating systems in a changing environment that allows for little to no downtime
  • Experience working with technologies such as Linux networking, DNS, IPAM, firewalls, routing, proxies
  • Experience troubleshooting and optimizing network protocols such as TCP, UDP, IPsec

Hybrid work at Stripe

Office-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 benefits

The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,500 - $225,700. 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 location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.

Office locations

Seattle, New York, or South San Francisco HQ

Team

Infrastructure & Corporate Tech

Job type

Full time

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We look forward to hearing from you

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.