Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure

Stripe

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$206,086–$285,600 / yr
Posted
46 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $172k
This role $246k
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This role pays more than 89% of similar roles. Most pay $134,462–$209,850 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $246k versus about $172k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 131 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 128 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure

As a Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure, you will join the team responsible for building and maintaining robust infrastructure solutions. You will contribute to team strategy, roadmap, and culture while designing, implementing, and deploying software that improves infrastructure resiliency, efficiency, and management at scale. Your daily work involves making critical tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, and cost to solve complex technical problems. You will develop and debug distributed systems using open source tools and build infrastructure as a product centered on user needs. The role requires proficiency in Ruby, Go, Python, or Java, along with experience in AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP. You will identify optimization opportunities and build tools that empower other developers while upholding high engineering standards for the online database infrastructure.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 409 postings across 38 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust software solutions with appropriate tradeoffs for reliability and cost.
  • Innovate and implement software to improve infrastructure resiliency, efficiency, and management at scale.
  • Develop, maintain, and debug distributed systems built with open source tools.
  • Build and operate infrastructure and tools that empower other developers.
  • Identify shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data-driven cost performance tradeoffs.
  • Break down large complex systems into manageable components.
  • Uphold high engineering standards to improve the codebase and internal processes.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • Must have 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in Software development.
  • Must have 5 years of experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools.
  • Must have 5 years of experience building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs.
  • Must have 5 years of experience scaling distributed systems and breaking down large complex systems.
  • Must have 5 years of experience identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data-driven cost performance tradeoffs.
  • Must have 5 years of experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers.
  • Must have 5 years of experience working in a development team in AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP using Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.

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