Backend Engineer, Core Technology

Stripe

Remote

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Work type: Remote
Location: Seattle, WANew York, NYSouth San Francisco, CA
Salary: $156,800–$285,600 / yr
Posted: 55 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $221k

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This role pays more than 77% of similar roles. Most pay $164,215–$217,725 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $221k versus about $191k for comparable roles.

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology

Stripe currently has 71 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $178,600–$268,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Backend Engineer, Core Technology

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As a senior software engineer on Stripe Infrastructure, you will join a dynamic team responsible for the reliability and scalability of Stripe’s systems. Your day-to-day responsibilities include designing and building robust infrastructure solutions that enhance developer productivity and customer experience both internally and externally. You will collaborate closely with multiple teams to prioritize roadmap initiatives, debug complex production issues across various levels of the stack, and ensure high-quality code delivery through strong teamwork and communication. Ideal candidates possess extensive hands-on experience in developing large-scale distributed systems using languages like Go or Java, along with a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms. The role demands expertise in optimizing system performance and a customer-centric approach to problem-solving, all while thriving in an autonomous and entrepreneurial environment.

Skills

Go Java C++ Docker Kubernetes AWS CI/CD Python PostgreSQL Trino Presto Apache_Pinot Hive_Metastore ElasticSearch DevOps Linux Git REST_APIs JSON

What you'll do

Design and build infrastructure to enhance developer productivity at Stripe.
Develop and maintain large-scale distributed systems supporting data serving needs.
Participate in roadmap planning and prioritize initiatives for core infrastructure projects.
Debug production issues across various levels of the technology stack.
Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to deliver value through effective communication.

What we're looking for

2-12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
Strong skills in writing high-quality code using languages like Go, Java, C/C++
Experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems
Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders
Passion for improving customer experience through infrastructure improvements
Thrives on autonomy and entrepreneurial thinking within a team environment
Focuses on optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems

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