Backend Engineer - Core Technology

Stripe is seeking a Backend Engineer for their Core Technology team within the Infrastructure organization. This role focuses on building and maintaining critical infrastructure systems that power Stripe's global financial platform. You'll work on essential areas including Core Infrastructure, Developer Infrastructure, Reliability Insights, Admin Platform, and Service Platform. The position involves designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems, optimizing performance, and ensuring reliability across Stripe's infrastructure.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll collaborate with multiple teams to build customer experiences for both internal and external Stripe users. You'll participate in roadmap planning, debug production issues across various stack levels, and deliver value through strong collaboration with stakeholders. The role requires expertise in programming languages like Go, Java, or C/C++, and experience with distributed systems.

The ideal candidate should have 2-12+ years of professional software development experience, strong algorithmic skills, and hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems. You'll need to demonstrate customer obsession, strong collaboration abilities, and thrive in an autonomous environment. The role offers competitive compensation ($150,500 - $269,200), comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work either hybrid or remote.

Join Stripe's Infrastructure team to help build the foundational platform that enables millions of businesses to participate in the global economy. You'll work on challenging technical problems while contributing to Stripe's mission of increasing the GDP of the internet.