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.
Build the infrastructure powering economic growth.
Stripe’s infrastructure powers businesses all over the world. We process payments, run marketplaces, detect fraud, help entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world, build world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more. If you’re an infrastructure engineer here, you’ll get to build distributed systems that are extremely reliable and scale-out horizontally on the cloud. At Stripe we care a very great deal about reliability as our users’ businesses depend on it.
You’ll be on a team that provides a secure, compliant, fast, and reliable infrastructure that connects Stripe’s products to users globally. The Edge team abstracts the underlying complexity of the Internet from our users and own tier-0 mission critical systems like Global Ingress, CDNs (and static assets), DNS and Certificates which power all of Stripe products (Payments, Elements, Connect, Terminal, Radar, Stripe Tax, Usage Billing, and other SaaS and BaaS - Banking as a Service offerings etc.). We power Stripe Frontend, which is used by all Stripe services to allow access from users of the internet. Edge drives Stripe wide initiatives like Multi-region support, Disaster recovery, Data locality, End-to-end (E2E) p50/p95/p99 payment latency, and is on the fore-front of enabling any new business or product line for Stripe. The current stack is built (but not limited to) leveraging AWS Infrastructure, AWS EC2, S3, AWS Elasticache, Auto scaling, AWS Shield, WAF, Distributed services built in GoLang, Load balancers in GoLand, C/C++, Nginx, Tooling in Python, React, JS, and memcached.
The Edge team is part of the High Assurance Engineering organization. The High Assurance Engineering organization is part of the Core Infrastructure organization.
As a Software Engineer on the Edge team, you will play a pivotal role in optimizing and enhancing the performance, reliability and security of our global Edge infrastructure and collaborate with product teams to design and deliver micro-services which support business needs. You will work at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and real-world impact, collaborating with talented engineers to tackle complex challenges in distributed systems, and networking. You will also build a great customer experience for internal Stripe product teams that rely on the Edge infrastructure to deliver traffic to their services globally and at scale.
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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.
It’s not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all of these areas. For instance, we have wonderful team members who are really focused on their customers’ needs and building amazing user experiences, but didn’t come in with as much systems knowledge.
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