Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

ABOUT THE ROLE As a Software Engineer on the Core Infrastructure team at Stripe, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining the infrastructure that underpins all Stripe business operations. This includes defining and executing a vision that ensures industry-leading scale and availability, and actively balancing these concerns with efficiency, latency, and organizational health. You will be part of a team that is committed to advancing new distributed services and scaling existing technologies across the industry, in close collaboration with various teams to support their current and future demands, and various external partners in the open source community. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building the core infrastructure used by product teams that support our business. This includes designing, building, and maintaining distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services, working on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services, operating your service, debugging issues, and supporting customers. You will also participate in roadmap planning and prioritization. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be considered for this role, you should have a strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale, with a solid grasp of underlying operating system primitives. You should also have experience building, deploying, and managing infrastructure on a major cloud provider, developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems, including diagnosing low-level resource constraints. Additionally, you should have experience with operational excellence and modern observability practices, including distributed tracing, structured logging, and system-level metrics. WHY REMOTE As a remote employee, you will have the opportunity to work with a global team and contribute to a mission that aims to increase the GDP of the internet. You will be part of a team that values collaboration, innovation, and customer satisfaction, and you will have the flexibility to work from anywhere. BENEFITS - Competitive salary - Comprehensive health plan - Parental leave - Education stipend - Life insurance - Flexible schedule - Opportunity to work on a wide range of projects and technologies - Collaborative and dynamic work environment - Opportunity to make a significant impact on the company's mission and growth