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StripeGlobal Operations

Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Seattle, WAFull-timeNot specified$206,086 – $285,600
Posted Sep 14, 2026Deadline: Keep Open
Job SnapshotActively hiring
LocationSeattle, WA
Job typeFull-time
Salary$206,086 – $285,600
DeadlineKeep Open

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$206,086 – $285,600
Key skills
JavaGoRubySQLPayments

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What you'll own

Design, build, and maintain highly‑available, multi‑region systems; write and deploy code in Ruby, Java, Go and related tech; troubleshoot live distributed production issues.

What they're looking for

5+ years of software development (or 3+ with a master’s), plus 3+ years each with Go/Ruby/Java, database internals, cloud services (S3, EC2, VPC, etc.), Temporal workflows, Trino SQL, and fault‑tolerant sharding/replication.

Why this role matters

Your work keeps Stripe’s platform up and data safe, directly supporting the mission to increase the internet’s GDP by delivering reliable, resilient financial infrastructure.

Best suited to

Seasoned engineers who thrive on distributed, latency‑critical systems, enjoy building disaster‑recovery solutions, and are comfortable across multiple languages and cloud technologies.

About this role

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

  • 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.

Who you are

Minimum 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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