Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

About Stripe

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.

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.