Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Stripe Open · verified Oct 24, 2026 At a glance
Mid-level Software Engineering role at Stripe. Seattle · $206,086–$285,600 base.
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What you'll do
- Combine less-available components and data centers into a global design that keeps services resilient
- Tackle latency-sensitive work, data redundancy, Mongo write concerns, and cross-region TLS handshakes
- Build and ship solutions in Ruby, Java, Mongo, Postgres, and other needed technologies
- Trace failures in live distributed systems and help teams understand multi-region design and durable data practices
- Review designs and code, and meet the engineering standards expected across the team
What you bring
- A CS or related bachelor's degree plus five years of software development, or a relevant master's degree plus three years
- At least three years with Go, Ruby or Java, and database internals such as data movement, leader election and quorums
- Three years using S3, EBS, EC2 and VPC services to deploy scalable applications
- Three years building Temporal workflows, analyzing data with Trino SQL, and designing fault-tolerant systems with sharding and replication
Who this fits
This role suits an engineer focused on distributed systems, service availability and disaster recovery. The position is based in Seattle, with half of work time permitted remotely.
From the employer
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe, LLC. 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.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
- Develop global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole.
- Work on latency-critical, time-sensitive and data redundancy solutions.
- Solve broad range of problems, including investigating Mongo write concerns, minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes, and develop new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers.
- Enable the company to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection.
- Write code, scope, design, implement, and deploy solutions using multiple technologies, including: Ruby, Java, Mongo, Postgres, and other necessary tools as required.
- Investigate issues in live, distributed production systems.
- Collaborate across the company to provide an understanding of multi-region architectures, high durability implementation patterns, and best practices.
- Learn, meet, and uphold high engineering standards through design and code review.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor’s progressive software development work experience. In the alternative, the employer is willing to accept a Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus three (3) years of software development work experience.
Must also have three (3) years of experience in each of the following:
- Go, Ruby, or Java programming languages;
- Database internals including data movement, leader election, and quorums;
- Cloud infrastructure services, including: S3, EBS, EC2, and VPCs, to deploy scalable applications;
- Designing and building Temporal workflows;
- Using Trino SQL for data analysis and visualization; and
- Designing fault-tolerant systems using data sharding and replication strategies.
Salary: $206,086 - $285,600/yr.
This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.
40 hrs/week
50% Telecommuting permitted.
Multiple Positions Available.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA70
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