Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Stripe is hiring for the position of Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Seattle, WA, United States. It is listed as a full-time position.
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Stripe is hiring for the position of Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Seattle, WA, United States. It is listed as a full-time position.
Skills and tools named in the text include Java, Ruby, SQL and data analysis.
The listing gives the pay as $206,086 - $285,600/yr.
Benefits mentioned in the advert: pension or retirement plan and bonus.
The advert does not mention visa sponsorship. If you would move to United States for this job, check the official work permit route first (DGJ Insight lists it where we have it).
Dev Global Jobs found this job on Greenhouse on Nov 13, 2026.
- Employer
- Stripe
- Location
- Seattle, WA, United States
- Job type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $206,086 - $285,600/yr
- Found
- Nov 13, 2026 on Greenhouse
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This job's listed pay is 183% above the benchmark.
Source: OECD Average annual wages, 2025
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- L-1 intracompany transferee: Employees of a related company abroad transferring to a US office
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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
- 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.
03Minimum 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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