8127 Core Infrastructure

Stripe

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 Stream Compute team at Stripe builds and operates the infrastructure, tooling, and systems behind our Flink-powered stream processing systems. We're at the heart of several core asynchronous workflows, operating at significant scale and handling vast amounts of sensitive financial data. Our work powers intricate processes involving various critical financial operations and real-time analytics. We run globally distributed systems with high reliability and performance to meet Stripe's scaling, availability, and product needs, and we continually reduce operational toil by investing in automation and self-service tooling for upgrades, maintenance, and day-to-day operations. The team is distributed between Seattle, Toronto, and remote locations. What makes our team truly exciting is our commitment to our users: we ensure no event is dropped, state integrity is preserved, and exactly-once processing is supported as a first-class feature. Working at the intersection of real-time data processing and fintech innovation, we continuously push the boundaries of what's possible. Our focus on innovation, user experience, reliability, and compliance drives increased ROI and operational excellence, making us a crucial part of Stripe's success. WHAT YOU'LL DO You'll help define and deliver the next generation of Stripe's Flink-first stream compute infrastructure—driving innovation to meet extremely high availability targets at global scale. Partnering with infrastructure engineers, adjacent platform teams, and the product orgs that depend on Flink every day, you'll set a long-term technical direction that scales with Stripe's growth while enabling reliable, efficient operations for years to come. You'll work on the hardest problems in operating Flink in production—state management, exactly-once processing, performance isolation, and automated recovery—so teams across Stripe can confidently build stateful stream processing applications on top of it. RESPONSIBILITIES * Design, build, and operate stream compute infrastructure with Apache Flink at the center, alongside technologies like Kafka, Temporal, and AWS services * Partner with product and platform teams across Stripe to understand requirements, unblock Flink adoption, and improve how stream processing infrastructure is used end-to-end  * Define and implement operational best practices (e.g., shuffle sharding, cellular architecture, load shedding, automated state recovery) to improve resilience and reliability at scale  * Drive fleet-level automation and standardization ("pets" to "cattle") through self-service workflows, safer rollouts, and self-healing systems that reduce manual operations  * Lead initiatives that raise the bar on Flink availability and state durability (e.g., multi-region strategies, disaster recovery readiness, operational readiness reviews, incident learning)  * Evaluate and productionize Flink ecosystem capabilities (e.g., SQL, connectors, state backends) to improve developer experience and scalability without compromising reliability  * Work closely with the open-source community to identify opportunities for adopting new open-source features and contributing back to OSS 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 * This is a Staff-level role—that typically means 10+ years of experience building, operating, and evolving large-scale production systems.   * Experience as a technical lead for team(s) working on distributed systems, including scaling them in fast-moving environments * Hands-on experience with big data technologies such as Flink, Spark, Kafka, Pulsar, or Pinot * Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open-source tools * Experience building and scaling infrastructure as a product • Strong software engineering skills and a passion for big data distributed systems * Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, Scala, etc.) * Comfortable operating with high autonomy and ownership * Growth mindset and a willingness to learn quickly, explore ambiguous problem spaces, and dive deep when needed * Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear technical documentation PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience operating streaming infrastructure as a platform (e.g., Flink clusters, Kafka, Pulsar) for internal customers at scale * Deep hands-on experience authoring, optimizing, and operating real-time processing frameworks such as Flink, Spark Streaming, Storm, or Kafka Streams in production * Experience building or operating control planes for managing large-scale infrastructure * Open-source contributions to data processing or big data systems (Hadoop, Spark, Celeborn, Flink, etc.)

Stripe

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 including:  * Core Infrastructure—We're the home for Stripe's critical tier0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching and High assurance engineering). We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability, availability, efficiency, and scalability of these systems. * Developer Infrastructure—We're responsible for the productivity of all developers at Stripe. Ensure Stripe's engineers have a reliable, fast, and easy-to-use inner dev loop to maximize productivity while building everything from low-latency microservices to large-scale data pipelines and machine learning models. * Data Infrastructure—We're responsible for offering data serving infrastructure spanning across data warehouse analytics, streaming analytics, and search capabilities. The stack is supported by a collection of internally developed large-scale distributed services and several popular open-source technologies like Trino/Presto, Apache Pinot, Hive Metastore, ElasticSearch etc. The systems we own support all of the data serving needs of high-scale services and thousands of individual Stripes across the company. * Admin Platform—We empower Stripes to quickly build secure and delightful internal products in service of their users. * Service Platform—We enable engineering teams at Stripe to easily write and ship useful services that correctly, reliably, and efficiently leverage platform capabilities. * Developer Productivity AI—We're responsible for doubling Stripe's engineering velocity through effective use of LLMs. We own Minions, Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents. Team matching—exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. Find more information on our team matching process here. WHAT YOU'LL DO You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll 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 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 * Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above * Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc.) * 2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms * Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems * Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success * Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome * Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems * Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external * Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production

Stripe

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 including:  * Core Infrastructure—We're the home for Stripe's critical tier0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching and High assurance engineering). We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability, availability, efficiency, and scalability of these systems. * Developer Infrastructure—We're responsible for the productivity of all developers at Stripe. Ensure Stripe's engineers have a reliable, fast, and easy-to-use inner dev loop to maximize productivity while building everything from low-latency microservices to large-scale data pipelines and machine learning models. * Data Infrastructure—We're responsible for offering data serving infrastructure spanning across data warehouse analytics, streaming analytics, and search capabilities. The stack is supported by a collection of internally developed large-scale distributed services and several popular open-source technologies like Trino/Presto, Apache Pinot, Hive Metastore, ElasticSearch etc. The systems we own support all of the data serving needs of high-scale services and thousands of individual Stripes across the company. * Admin Platform—We empower Stripes to quickly build secure and delightful internal products in service of their users. * Service Platform—We enable engineering teams at Stripe to easily write and ship useful services that correctly, reliably, and efficiently leverage platform capabilities. * Developer Productivity AI—We're responsible for doubling Stripe's engineering velocity through effective use of LLMs. We own Minions, Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents. Team matching—exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. Find more information on our team matching process here. WHAT YOU'LL DO You'll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you'll 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 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 * Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above * Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc.) * 2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms * Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems * Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers' success * Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome * Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems * Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external * Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production