Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

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 Core Infrastructure team at Stripe is entrusted with developing and maintaining the infrastructure utilized by all product teams to create services that underpin all Stripe business operations. This includes defining and executing a vision that ensures industry-leading scale and availability, and actively balancing these concerns with efficiency, latency, and organizational health. We are committed to advancing new distributed services and scaling existing technologies across the industry, in close collaboration with various teams to support their current and future demands, and various external partners in the open source community. Our infrastructure supports businesses worldwide by processing payments, managing marketplaces, assisting entrepreneurs in launching internet businesses, and more. The Infrastructure organization comprises teams responsible for operating system components, databases, caching, high availability, disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, change management, and network edge infrastructure. What you'll do As a Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team that is in charge of building the core infrastructure used by product teams which support our business. Examples include control plane services responsible for managing our primary database and cache infrastructure as well as building automation around managing cloud components for compute, cache, and networking. You will also build a great customer experience for internal Stripe teams that build on your software to power all of our products, globally and at scale. Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services - Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services - Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers - Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization 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 - 5+ years of professional experience in a software development role - Experience building, deploying, and managing infrastructure on a major cloud provider - A strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale, with a solid grasp of underlying operating system primitives - Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems, including diagnosing low-level resource constraints - Experience with operational excellence and modern observability practices, including distributed tracing, structured logging, and system-level metrics Preferred Qualifications - Experience with popular cloud technologies — AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle Cloud - Experience with Go or other systems languages (e.g., Rust, C/C++) - Experience with Linux OS internals, performance optimization, and kernel-level troubleshooting - Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and low-level container mechanics - Experience in networking and traffic systems at scale - Experience handling critical incidents for production systems