Backend Engineer, Core Tech, Canada

<h2><strong>Who we are</strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe&nbsp;</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <h3><strong>About the organization&nbsp;</strong></h3> <p>Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe’s systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe’s people.&nbsp;</p> <p>You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li><strong>Core Infrastructure - </strong>We’re the home for Stripe's critical tier0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching and High assurance engineering). We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability, availability, efficiency and scalability of these systems<strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>Developer Infrastructure - </strong>We’re responsible for the productivity of all developers at Stripe. Ensure Stripe’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><strong>Data Platform -&nbsp; </strong>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 Stripes across the company.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>Admin Platform - </strong>We empower Stripes to quickly build secure and delightful internal products in service of their users.</li> <li><strong>Support Experience -</strong> We build and improve our 24x7 email, phone, and chat support channels, our Premium Support and Enterprise Services products, our Support Site, and more. This includes how users get help within our products, how they get in touch with us when they have questions, and how our teams use internal tools to answer those questions.</li> <li><strong>Service Platform - </strong>We enable engineering teams at Stripe to easily write and ship useful services that correctly, reliably, and efficiently leverage platform capabilities.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>Team Matching:</strong> exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages.<em>&nbsp;</em><em>Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc.&nbsp;</em>More information on our team matching process can be found <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zvJkO2c7GzukHG-_oqc5wbOLajpuh5FjbmZPcZPU1o0/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ahb3b6nrktv1">here</a>.</p> <h3><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h3> <p>You will work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you will design, build, test, and ship great code every day.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure</li> <li>Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization</li> <li>Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe</li> <li>Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Who you are</strong></h3> <p>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. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.</p> <h3><strong>Minimum Requirements&nbsp;</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above.</li> <li>Ability to write high quality code (in