Stripe
Staff Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Seattle, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Toronto +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Toronto
US - Experience
- 10 years or more of distributed and cloud native software development experience at a highly-scaled or hyperscaler service.
About the job
Designs and builds distributed systems and global architecture that help Stripe’s latency-critical, stateful services withstand disasters and improve availability, resilience, and data protection.
What you'll do
- Identify reliability improvements and design, implement, and deploy robust distributed services.
- Develop products, prototypes, and systems for service resiliency, including disaster detection and failovers.
- Lead technical projects, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering strategy, tooling, and processes.
What they ask for
- 10 years or more of distributed and cloud native software development experience at a highly-scaled or hyperscaler service.
- Deep understanding of scalable, resilient distributed systems, cloud native architectures, and mission critical systems.
- Experience influencing, planning, scoping, and leading large projects across many teams.
- Strong history as a technical lead and mentor across several engineering teams.
Tools
Mongo, TLS
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