Software Engineer, Resource Automation
At a glance
Mid-level Software Engineering role at Stripe. South San Francisco · $156,800–$235,200 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and maintain backend systems for internal infrastructure and microservice operations, from initial design through deployment
- Create tools that make resource setup, releases and routine operational work easier for internal engineering teams
- Compare design options against reliability, speed, capacity, resilience, cost and engineering pace
- Improve service health through monitoring, incident investigation, on-call participation as applicable and fixes for recurring failures
- Review code and technical plans, document systems, and strengthen existing testing and engineering practices
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or a related area, plus two years in software engineering
- Two years building production backend services and automated tests in Go, and working with distributed systems and service APIs
- Two years deploying and running services on cloud infrastructure, using AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI, plus Docker and Kubernetes
- Two years diagnosing production issues with logs, metrics and tracing in Linux environments
Who this fits
This role suits a mid-level software engineer with backend, cloud operations and production troubleshooting experience. The position is based in South San Francisco, with fifty percent telecommuting permitted.
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
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain backend services that support internal infrastructure and microservice operations.
- Develop automation and tooling that streamlines resource provisioning, deployments, and operational workflows for internal engineering teams.
- Produce and review technical designs; evaluate tradeoffs across reliability, latency, throughput, resiliency, cost, and engineering velocity.
- Improve service operability by implementing monitoring/alerting, participating in on-call support as applicable, performing root-cause analysis, and addressing recurring failure modes.
- Uphold engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, testing practices, and iterative improvements to existing services and systems.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field, plus 2 years of related work experience in software engineering.
Must also have 2 years of experience in each of the following:
- Backend development in Go, including building production services and writing automated tests;
- Distributed systems and microservices, and designing and implementing service APIs, including HTTP/REST or gRPC;
- Deploying and operating services using common cloud primitives computing, networking, and storage in cloud environments including AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI;
- Containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes and operating containerized services in production; and
- Observability and production troubleshooting, including using logs, metrics, and tracing to diagnose issues in Linux-based environments.
Salary: $156,800.00 - $235,200.00/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. CA73