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

Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe’s systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe’s people.

You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas supporting Stripe’s operations, including:

Operations Platform - We empower Stripes to quickly build secure and delightful internal products in service of their users.

You will:

You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day.

Responsibilities

Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure
Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization
Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe
Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack

Uphold Stripe’s high standards for engineering and product quality and mentor newer team members to do the same.

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.

We’re looking for people passionate about distilling complexity to solve real world business problems.

Minimum requirements

You have a strong technical background, including 7+ years of experience building impactful products or systems at scale
Enjoy being a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users both internally and externally
Write high quality code that is tested thoroughly, supported by clear documentation and has appropriate production observability
You are empathetic with users, both internal and external, and strive to create a better experience for all customers
Proven ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if you have not worked with them before
Uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design

Preferred qualifications

Proficient in JavaScript (React) & Ruby; language can be learned and we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework
Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, stakeholders etc.)
The ability to thrive on a high level of ambiguity, autonomy and responsibility
Previous experience building products for developers or operations teams

Software Engineer, Operations Platform