Staff Software Engineer – High Availability, Disaster Recovery

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About the role

  • Staff Software Engineer designing highly available distributed systems for Stripe’s financial infrastructure platform. Building disaster recovery, failover automation, and resilient architecture for latency-critical services.

Responsibilities

  • Work with leaders and engineers across the company to identify opportunities to improve Stripe’s reliability posture
  • Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust distributed services
  • Balance reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity, and cost
  • Design and implement products and prototypes to improve service resiliency, engineering velocity, and management at scale
  • Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
  • Contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, processes, and culture
  • Uphold engineering standards and improve the codebase and processes
  • Develop global high-availability architecture for latency-critical, stateful applications
  • Investigate Mongo write concerns and minimize cross-region TLS handshakes
  • Develop systems to automate disaster detection and failovers

Requirements

  • 10 years or more of distributed and cloud native software development experience at a highly-scaled or hyperscaler service
  • Deep understanding of how to build scalable, resilient, distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and mission critical systems
  • Experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large projects across many teams
  • Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving diverse stakeholders and subject matter experts
  • High level of autonomy and responsibility; entrepreneurial, proactive, and self-driven
  • Strong history of being a technical lead and mentor across several engineering teams

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudDistributed Systems

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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