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Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure

Name: RiseMe
Availability: InStock

RemoteRemoteFull Time$206,086–$285,600 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

Computer Engineering
distributed systems
infrastructure as a product
scaling distributed systems
large complex systems
empower developers
AWS
Azure
OCI
GCP

Nice to have

equity
company bonus
sales commissions/bonuses
wellness stipends

Role summary

Stripe is seeking a Software Engineer to join their Online Database Infrastructure team. This role involves contributing to team strategy, roadmap, and culture, while designing, implementing, and deploying robust solutions for infrastructure resiliency, reliability, and efficiency at scale. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 5 years of experience in software development, distributed systems, infrastructure as a product, scaling systems, and programming in Ruby, Go, Python, or Java. Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP is also required.

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, 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.

Who you are

Minimum 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

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Sample Stripe interview questions

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Design a Distributed LRU Cache
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Design an application performance monitoring system
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3
Design a rate limiter
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4
What strategies would you use to ensure fault tolerance and data persistence in a distributed cache?
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5
Design an autocomplete Typeahead Suggestion system.
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