Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure
About the role
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01About 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.
02Responsibilities
- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture. Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity and cost.
- Innovate, design and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement in infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency and management at scale.
- Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes.
03Minimum requirements
Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in Software development.
Must also have 5 years of experience in each of the following:
- Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools;
- Building infrastructure as a product centered around users’ needs;
- Scaling distributed systems;
- Breaking down large complex systems;
- Identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities to make data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions;
- Building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers;
- Working in a development team in AWS, Azure, OCI or GCP; and
- Programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.
Salary: $206,086.00 - $285,600.00/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. WA56
DGJ Insight
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This job's listed pay is 183% above the benchmark.
Source: OECD Average annual wages, 2025
- H-1B specialty occupation: Employer petition, bachelor's degree or higher in the specialty; annual cap and lottery
- L-1 intracompany transferee: Employees of a related company abroad transferring to a US office
- O-1 extraordinary ability: Evidence of extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education, business or athletics
Official routes: USCIS
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