
Staff Engineer - Distributed Systems
Stripe
- Location
- United States of America
- Posted
- Salary Range
- 179k - 269k USD
Distributed Systems Engineer needed to design & implement reliability infrastructure components
Stripe
Distributed Systems Engineer needed to design & implement reliability infrastructure components
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Stripe
We are seeking an experienced Distributed Systems Engineer to design, implement, and test reliability infrastructure components that will be integrated into various services. The ideal candidate will have 9+ years of engineering experience, hands-on experience designing large-scale distributed systems, and demonstrated leadership skills. They will work cross-functionally with teams to ensure Stripe can scale to meet its biggest customers' needs. The role involves mentoring engineers, managing projects, and creating a maintenance and reliability plan for the future. With flexible remote work options and $4,000/year travel stipends, this is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about delivering world-class reliability solutions.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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,