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Staff Engineer - Distributed Systems

Stripe

Full-time
USA
$179k-$269k per year
engineer
golang
kubernetes
monitoring
systems engineer
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About the team

Our team owns the core preventative reliability platforms, tools, and programs used by infrastructure and product teams across the company. Our load testing platform enables traffic generation and monitoring to ensure products are prepared to handle surges in usage, our chaos platform enables product and infrastructure experimentation to validate system resiliency and operational excellence, and our scale validation game day program ensures Stripe can handle our biggest customers' biggest days.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for an experienced distributed systems engineer with outstanding technical and leadership skills, strong collaboration skills and huge passion for customers to help deliver the  foundation of our reliability infrastructure and work with various teams and across the entire stack to deliver world-class reliability solutions. In this role you’ll not only be in charge of designing, implementing and testing your reliability infrastructure components, but you’ll play an influential role in enabling engineering teams to make their services more reliable by identifying, creating, and deploying engineering practices, processes, and solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test and operationalize end to end distributed systems reliability infrastructure and solutions that will be integrated into various services.

  • Liaise with teams using this core infrastructure to ensure it meets their needs and expectations.

  • Work cross functionally to ensure Stripe can scale to meet our biggest customers’ needs

  • Shape the plan for the growth of Stripe’s reliability infrastructure

  • Mentor other engineers in the organization and review code

  • Manage projects, including measuring impact and success of the project, and creating a maintenance and reliability plan for the future

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

  • 9+ years of engineering experience or equivalent combined work experience reflecting domain expertise 

  • Hands-on experience designing and building large scale distributed systems.

  • Demonstrated experience of leading initiatives spanning multiple teams and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence tech roadmap planning and execution

  • Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive business outcomes

  • Experience, mentoring, and investing in the development of engineers and peers

Preferred qualifications

  • Genuine interest and/or experience in debugging and troubleshooting complex distributed systems problems. 

  • Familiarity with the common patterns and practices for building reliable software.

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Golang,

About the job

Full-time
USA
$179k-$269k per year
5 Applicants
Posted 3 months ago
engineer
golang
kubernetes
monitoring
systems engineer
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Staff Engineer - Distributed Systems

Stripe
The job listing has expired. Unfortunately, the hiring company is no longer accepting new applications.

To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Development jobs

About the team

Our team owns the core preventative reliability platforms, tools, and programs used by infrastructure and product teams across the company. Our load testing platform enables traffic generation and monitoring to ensure products are prepared to handle surges in usage, our chaos platform enables product and infrastructure experimentation to validate system resiliency and operational excellence, and our scale validation game day program ensures Stripe can handle our biggest customers' biggest days.

What you’ll do

We’re looking for an experienced distributed systems engineer with outstanding technical and leadership skills, strong collaboration skills and huge passion for customers to help deliver the  foundation of our reliability infrastructure and work with various teams and across the entire stack to deliver world-class reliability solutions. In this role you’ll not only be in charge of designing, implementing and testing your reliability infrastructure components, but you’ll play an influential role in enabling engineering teams to make their services more reliable by identifying, creating, and deploying engineering practices, processes, and solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test and operationalize end to end distributed systems reliability infrastructure and solutions that will be integrated into various services.

  • Liaise with teams using this core infrastructure to ensure it meets their needs and expectations.

  • Work cross functionally to ensure Stripe can scale to meet our biggest customers’ needs

  • Shape the plan for the growth of Stripe’s reliability infrastructure

  • Mentor other engineers in the organization and review code

  • Manage projects, including measuring impact and success of the project, and creating a maintenance and reliability plan for the future

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

  • 9+ years of engineering experience or equivalent combined work experience reflecting domain expertise 

  • Hands-on experience designing and building large scale distributed systems.

  • Demonstrated experience of leading initiatives spanning multiple teams and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence tech roadmap planning and execution

  • Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive business outcomes

  • Experience, mentoring, and investing in the development of engineers and peers

Preferred qualifications

  • Genuine interest and/or experience in debugging and troubleshooting complex distributed systems problems. 

  • Familiarity with the common patterns and practices for building reliable software.

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Golang,

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