Software Engineer Production Engineering @ Stripe
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About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. The mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, offering an unprecedented opportunity to impact the global economy.
Who We Are
The Production Engineering team empowers teams to build reliable and performant services supporting payment systems, fraud detection, and many other products. This team builds powerful interfaces such as deployment systems, load balancers, web frameworks, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes, ensuring they remain highly available and efficient.
What You’ll Do
As a Software Engineer in Production Engineering, you will design, build, test, and ship software services and platforms that impact thousands of employees and millions of Stripe users. Collaborate with technical leaders to solve complex issues, debug production problems, and ensure the infrastructure meets internal and external customer needs.
- Build great customer experiences for internal and external teams.
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
- Deliver value through strong collaboration across stakeholders.
- Debug production issues across services and multiple stack levels.
Who You Are
Minimum requirements include 2-8 years of industry software engineering experience, solid coding skills in any programming language, experience with algorithms and data structures, and a proven ability to contribute to or build large-scale distributed systems. Collaboration, autonomy, and a generalist approach to various technologies are essential.
Key Skills/Competency
- Software Engineering
- Production Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- Infrastructure
- Debugging
- Collaboration
- Algorithms
- Scalability
- Performance
- Customer Experience
How to Get Hired at Stripe
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Research Stripe's culture: Understand their mission and recent projects via company blogs and news.
- Customize your resume: Highlight distributed systems, collaboration, and production experience.
- Prepare coding examples: Showcase algorithm and debugging skills in your portfolio.
- Practice interview insights: Be ready to discuss technical challenges and team projects.