Software Engineer, Distributed Caching Platform

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

Our infrastructure supports businesses worldwide by processing payments, managing marketplaces, assisting entrepreneurs in launching internet businesses, and more. The Core Infra organization comprises teams responsible for operating system components, databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), caching, high availability & disaster recovery, AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, change management, and network edge infrastructure.The Distributed Caching Platform team within the Core Infrastructure organization has built a sophisticated, highly scalable, and ultra-low latency tier-0 caching platform. This mission-critical infrastructure serves as the backbone for a multitude of Stripe products. Operating with remarkable efficiency, the platform adeptly manages over 60 million requests per second, maintaining an impressively low latency of less than 2 ms, and upholding a stellar five 9's of reliability. As we advance into the next phase of expansion and innovation, we are actively seeking highly skilled engineers to join our team. This presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of Stripe's fastest-growing platforms, where you will play a key role in delivering the next set of groundbreaking features. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and thrive in a dynamic, high-growth environment, we invite you to be part of our journey in shaping the future of our caching platform.

What you’ll do

As a Backend engineer,you will be part of a team that is in charge of building the core caching infrastructure used by product teams to build micro-services which support our business. Examples include control plane services responsible for managing cache infrastructure, solving complex problems such as replication of cached data across regions in real time, and scaling the infrastructure to support the next phase of growth. You will also build a great customer experience for internal Stripe teams that build on your software to power all of our products, globally and at scale.

• Design, plan, build, and maintain storage / databases, compute, and networking infrastructure used by all Stripe service teams
• Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale.
• Maintain a collaborative environment, engaging in discussions and decision-making processes with stakeholders within various domains at Stripe.
• Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services
• Identify the shared infrastructure needs across Stripe, understand their specific requirements and prioritise solutions

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.

• 3+ years of experience in delivering, extending, and maintaining large scale distributed systems.
• Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices, especially in the financial industry.
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
• Experience using one of the major cloud providers
• A strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale
• Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems
• Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards
• Experience handling critical incidents for production systemsThink about systems, services, and platforms, and write high quality code. We work mostly in Java, Go, and Ruby.You are capable of working in ambiguous fast-moving environments and have a curiosity to learn the domain to a deep level.
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise.

• Experience on popular cloud technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP/Oracle Cloud
• Experience working with Distributed cache services like AWS Elasticache and technologies like memcached, Redis etc.
• Experience with Linux OS
• If you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Preferred qualifications are beneficial but not mandatory.

Stripe does not yet include pay ranges in job postings in every country. Stripe strongly values pay transparency and is working toward pay transparency globally.

Office-assigned Stripes spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for individuals and their teams.