Software Engineer, Databases

Company: Stripe
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 17, 2022

Job Description:

Seattle or San Francisco. Remote in North America only Seattle or San Francisco. Remote in North America only Stripe has been on a mission to build the Global Payment and Treasury Network (GPTN) to drastically increase the GDP of the Internet. This platform will act as the next generation engine to power all the critical offerings at Stripe and enable the future products to fuel the rapid growth in digital payments and the related domains. On this platform, Stripe processes payments, runs marketplaces, detects fraud, helps entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world, builds world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more. -Our infrastructure powers businesses all over the world. We process payments, run marketplaces, detect fraud, help entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world, build world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more. -We're looking for people with good knowledge in Mysql who also have passion in bridging the application and the infrastructure. In this role, you will help our applications to use the database efficiently, work cross-functionally with many different engineering organizations to improve their applications. -You will:

• Help us tune and scale the applications across databases.
• Debug and optimize the database queries.
• Collaborate with fellow team members to deliver the above.
• Plan for the hyper growth of Stripe's infrastructure.
• Build a great customer experience for people using your infrastructure.We're looking for someone who has:
  • Experience in building horizontally scalable systems with databases like MySQL or other distributed storage technologies.
  • Experience in Mysql query tuning, slow query debugging and profiling.
  • Scope, design and implement the unique, large scale, high-performance distributed applications to handle billions of money movement requests in face of complex and often changing business logic
  • Think about systems - their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles
  • Know your way around a Unix shell
  • Have passion to work on complex problems across the whole stack
  • Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external
  • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production
  • A metrics driven approach and can make informed decisions using data
  • Are able to write high quality code (e.g. Go, Java etc.)It's not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all of these areas. For instance, we have wonderful team members who are really focused on their customers' needs and building amazing user experiences, but didn't come in with as much systems knowledge. At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out-and set you apart-especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us. #LI-NJ1

Keywords: Stripe, San Francisco , Software Engineer, Databases, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California