Software Engineer
Stripe is hiring a Software Engineer in South San Francisco, United States. It pays $157k-$235k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Stripe.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this software engineer role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions AWS, Azure and Google Cloud among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a mid-level role.
- Stripe has 720 other open roles on Level.
- Posted within the past week.
AI in this role
Design and deploy scalable infrastructure and distributed financial services systems using Go, Ruby, and cloud technologies.
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
- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling process, and culture.
- Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions.
- Make appropriate tradeoffs between reliability throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity and cost.
- Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute toward improvement in infrastructure, resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale.
- Uphold the company’s high engineering standards and improve the overall codebase and processes.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus two (2) years of work experience in software development.
Must also have two (2) years of experience in each of the following:
- Designing and deploying scalable infrastructure within major public cloud environments, specifically using AWS, Azure, or GCP;
- Cloud-native networking, compute instances (EC2), and storage solutions to support global, high-availability financial services;
- Developing software in Go and Ruby to build and maintain robust distributed systems and internal tooling;
- Writing clean, maintainable code to automate infrastructure management and develop the core services that power microservice architecture;
- Kubernetes and containerization technologies to manage large-scale server fleets and microservices;
- Designing orchestration strategies that ensure system reliability, efficient resource allocation and seamless deployments across a distributed environment; and
- Designing, building, and debugging high-scale distributed systems using open-source tools, analyzing complex system architectures, identifying performance bottlenecks, and implementing data-driven optimizations that improve latency, resiliency, and cost-performance ratios.
Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/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. CA64
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How we rate this
Software Engineer at Stripe rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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Pay
- This job starts at
- $157k
- Typical software engineer job
- $168k
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- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where cloud computing was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where software development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used AWS in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Distributed Systems, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Software Development, and AWS. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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