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Stripe

Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Stripe is hiring a Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Seattle, United States. It pays $206k-$286k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Stripe.

Level's read on this job

  • Level rates this software engineer role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • Pay on this posting starts 23% higher than the typical software engineer posting on Level.
  • The posting mentions Go, Ruby and Java among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a senior role.
  • Stripe has 717 other open roles on Level.

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Design and develop global multi-region architectures, high availability solutions, and disaster recovery systems at Stripe.

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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

  • 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.

Who you are

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.

Must also have three (3) years of experience in each of the following:

  • Go, Ruby, or Java programming languages;
  • Database internals including data movement, leader election, and quorums;
  • Cloud infrastructure services, including: S3, EBS, EC2, and VPCs, to deploy scalable applications;
  • Designing and building Temporal workflows;
  • Using Trino SQL for data analysis and visualization; and
  • Designing fault-tolerant systems using data sharding and replication strategies.

Salary: $206,086 - $285,600/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. WA70

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How we rate this

Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery 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.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

This job starts at
$206k
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$167k

This posting starts 23% above the typical software engineer job. See software engineer jobs

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  1. Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where high availability was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where disaster recovery was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where cloud infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used Go in your day-to-day work.

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