Who we are

About Stripe

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.

About the team

The Core Infrastructure team at Stripe is entrusted with developing and maintaining the infrastructure utilized by all product teams to create services that underpin 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. We are 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.

Our infrastructure supports businesses worldwide by processing payments, managing marketplaces, assisting entrepreneurs in launching internet businesses, and more. The Infra organization comprises teams responsible for operating system components, databases, caching, high availability, disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, change management, and network edge infrastructure.

What you’ll do

As a Software Engineer, for the Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team that is in charge of building the core infrastructure used by product teams to build micro-services which support our business. Examples include control plane services responsible for managing our primary database and cache infrastructure as well as building automation around managing cloud components for compute, cache and networking. 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.

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.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services
Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services
Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers
Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization

Who you are

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

Minimum requirements

3+ years of professional experience in a software development role
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

Preferred qualifications

Experience on popular cloud technologies - AWS/Azure/GCP/Oracle Cloud
Experience with Go
Experience with Linux OS
Experience working with Kubernetes clusters
Experience in Networking and Traffic Systems at scale
Experience working with NoSQL databases
Experience handling critical incidents for production systems
Experience working with Distributed cache services like AWS Elasticache and technologies like memcached, Redis etc.

Position Details :

Job Type : Full Time
Location : 383 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW 2000

Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure