Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

<h2><strong>Who we are </strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Develop global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole. </li> <li>Work on latency-critical, time-sensitive and data redundancy solutions. </li> <li>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. </li> <li>Enable the company to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection.</li> <li>Write code, scope, design, implement, and deploy solutions using multiple technologies, including: Ruby, Java, Mongo, Postgres, and other necessary tools as required.</li> <li>Investigate issues in live, distributed production systems.</li> <li>Collaborate across the company to provide an understanding of multi-region architectures, high durability implementation patterns, and best practices. </li> <li>Learn, meet, and uphold high engineering standards through design and code review.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <p>Must also have three (3) years of experience in each of the following:</p> <ul> <li>Go, Ruby, or Java programming languages;</li> <li>Database internals including data movement, leader election, and quorums;</li> <li>Cloud infrastructure services, including: S3, EBS, EC2, and VPCs, to deploy scalable applications;</li> <li>Designing and building Temporal workflows;</li> <li>Using Trino SQL for data analysis and visualizat