Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

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 t