Stripe · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer, Stream Infrastructure
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$224K/yr - $336K/yr
10+ years expStripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, enabling companies to accept payments and grow revenue. The Staff Software Engineer for Stream Infrastructure will design and operate event-driven infrastructure, collaborating with various teams to enhance Stripe's streaming capabilities and ensure reliability and performance at scale.
FinanceFinTechMobile PaymentsSaaS
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate event-driven infrastructure, leveraging technologies like Apache Kafka, Temporal, and AWS services
Collaborate with teams across Stripe to understand their requirements, unblock adoption, and identify opportunities to improve how streaming infrastructure is used
Define and implement Kafka operational best practices—such as shuffle sharding, cellular architecture, and load shedding—to improve resilience and reliability at scale
Drive a shift from “pets” to “cattle”: build automation, standardized workflows, and self-healing systems that reduce manual operations
Qualification
Required
This is a Staff-level role - that typically means 10+ years of experience building, operating, and evolving large-scale production systems
Experience as a technical lead for team(s) working on distributed systems, including scaling them in fast-moving environments
Hands-on experience with big data technologies such as Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, or Pinot
Comfortable operating with high autonomy and ownership
Growth mindset and a willingness to learn quickly, explore ambiguous problem spaces, and dive deep when needed
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear technical documentation
Preferred
Experience operating streaming technologies as a platform (e.g., Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, Pinot) for internal customers at scale
Experience building or operating control planes for managing large-scale infrastructure
Benefits
Equity
Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
401(k) plan
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
Wellness stipends
Company
Stripe
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.44BKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementThrive CapitalFounders Fund
2025-02-27Secondary Market
2024-04-12Secondary Market· $694.16M
2024-03-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Steffan Tomlinson
CFO
Aitor Guevara
Head Of Engineering
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