Who we are About Stripe

Stripe 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.

About the team

The relational databases team has the mission to build a distributed, scale-out, highly resilient data storage platform to power all of Stripe’s new business applications. We are building this data service to meet Stripe’s reliability bar, while providing a distinct competitive advantage in application development velocity. The service will provide best in class durability, availability and performance to the applications. This is a high velocity, high impact initiative that is crucial to Stripe’s growth and success.  We are looking for engineers and technical leaders who are excited about reliability at scale and are looking to solve challenging distributed systems problems. 

What you’ll do

We have a ton of important work to do, which is why we’re hiring! The ideal candidate is excited about database technology, eager to lead a team solving challenging distributed systems problems, and committed to investing in partnerships with other Stripe engineers to establish empathy and understand their use cases. Our technologies include AWS Aurora, PostgreSQL, ETCD, Kafka, Kubernetes, Go, Ruby, Java, and others.

Work with engineers and other leaders at Stripe to understand and capture opportunities to better leverage our database platform, providing fault isolation, resource isolation, data locality, security, etc. Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and ease-of-use Manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering to provide a wonderful user experience Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.

Minimum requirements 8+ years of experience working with online relational database technologies - PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle Managed teams that shipped and operated critical software services, particularly in the open source, transactional database domain  Built horizontal scale-out, sharded distributed data platform using MySQL or other relational database as a building block A strong quantitative and analytical background Worked with geographically distributed teams Successfully recruited and built great teams Worked with a high level of autonomy and responsibility A clear and persuasive approach in writing and in person Preferred qualifications Experience working with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Experience working with globally replicated, sharded database platforms Familiar with Go