Backend Software Engineer, Infrastructure
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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 Data Lake team builds and operates Stripe’s Data Lake, enabling high‑scale data ingestion, unified storage, and data governance across services for all of Stripe. We operate globally distributed systems at high levels of reliability to support Stripe’s growing scalability and product requirements. We enable other teams by creating simple abstractions, self‑service tooling and dashboards, and minimizing operational toil through automation.
What you’ll do You’ll work with other infrastructure engineers and product engineers who use the systems we build. We’re looking for people interested in data and excited by distributed systems.
Responsibilities
* Design, build, and maintain Data Lake infrastructure—leveraging Hadoop, Spark, Iceberg, Temporal, and Amazon S3—used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams.
* Work with stakeholders across Stripe to understand requirements and identify opportunities to better leverage our streaming infrastructure.
Minimum Requirements
* 2–12+ years of professional software development experience.
* Experience designing, building, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems.
* Experience scaling distributed systems in a rapidly moving environment.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with Data Lake architecture.
* Experience with open‑source technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Iceberg or Amazon S3.
* Experience with orchestration platforms such as Cadence, Temporal or AWS Step Functions.
In‑office expectations Expectations vary by role, team and location. Generally, Stripes are expected to spend at least 50 % of the month in the local office.
Pay and benefits The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €83,200‑€156,000. Benefits may include equity, bonus, retirement plans, health benefits, and wellness stipends.
Seniority level Mid‑Senior level
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Engineering and Information Technology
Industries Software Development, Financial Services, Technology, Information and Internet
Location Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
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