Backend Engineer, Core Tech, Canada
Stripe
Job Description
<h3>Who we are</h3><h3>About <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a></h3><p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a> is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a> 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><h3>About the team</h3><p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a> Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a>'s systems and the productivity and sentiment of <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a>'s people.</p><p>You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including: </p><ul><li>Core Infrastructure—We're the home for <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a>'s critical tier0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching and High assurance engineering). We build the foundational platform for <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a> products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability, availability, efficiency, and scalability of these systems.</li><li>Developer Infrastructure—We're responsible for the productivity of all developers at <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a>. Ensure <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a>'s engineers have a reliable, fast, and easy-to-use inner dev loop to maximize productivity while building everything from low-latency microservices to large-scale data pipelines and machine learning models.</li><li>Data Infrastructure—We're responsible for offering data serving infrastructure spanning across data warehouse analytics, streaming analytics, and search capabilities. The stack is supported by a collection of internally developed large-scale distributed services and several popular open-source technologies like Trino/Presto, Apache Pinot, Hive Metastore, ElasticSearch etc. The systems we own support all of the data serving needs of high-scale services and thousands of individual <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a>s across the company.</li><li>Admin Platform—We empower <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a>s to quickly build secure and delightful internal products in service of their users.</li><li>Service Platform—We enable engineering teams at <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/stripe">Stripe</a> to easily write and ship useful services that correctly, reliably, and efficiently leverage platform capa