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.
The Core Infrastructure organization at Stripe is in charge of building and operating infrastructure services and cloud technologies used by product teams to launch new product offerings and features which support our business. This includes defining and driving the vision necessary to achieve best in class scale and availability. We continuously invest in building new distributed services and scaling existing technologies while working with various teams to meet their current and future needs.
The Distributed Caching Platform team within the Core Infrastructure organization has built a sophisticated, highly scalable, and ultra-low latency tier-0 caching platform. This mission-critical infrastructure serves as the backbone for a multitude of Stripe products. Operating with remarkable efficiency, the platform adeptly manages over 10 million requests per second, maintaining an impressively low latency of less than 5 ms, and upholding a stellar five 9's of reliability. As we advance into the next phase of expansion and innovation, we are actively seeking highly skilled engineers to join our team. This presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of Stripe's fastest-growing platforms, where you will play a key role in delivering the next set of groundbreaking features. If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and thrive in a dynamic, high-growth environment, we invite you to be part of our journey in shaping the future of our caching platform.
As a Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team that is in charge of building the core caching infrastructure used by product teams to build micro-services which support our business. Examples include control plane services responsible for managing cache infrastructure, solving complex problems such as replication of cached data across regions in real time, and scaling the infrastructure to support the next phase of growth. 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.
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.
