# Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Sydney, Australia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Software Engineer on the Core Infrastructure team at Stripe, you will be part of a team that builds and maintains the core infrastructure used by product teams to support Stripe's business operations.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services

- Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services

- Operate your service, debug issues, and support customers

- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization

## Requirements

- 3+ years of professional experience in a software development role

- Experience building, deploying, and managing infrastructure on a major cloud provider

- Strong engineering background in building platform services and/or distributed systems at scale

- Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems

- Experience with operational excellence and modern observability practices

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with popular cloud technologies , AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle Cloud

- Experience with Go or other systems languages (e.g., Rust, C/C++)

- Experience with Linux OS internals, performance optimization, and kernel-level troubleshooting

- Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and low-level container mechanics

- Experience in networking and traffic systems at scale

- Experience handling critical incidents for production systems

## Skills

### Required
- distributed cloud infrastructure
- platform services
- scaling
- automation
- reliability
- observability
- operational excellence
- modern observability practices
- distributed systems
- cloud provider

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Oracle Cloud
- Go
- Rust
- C/C++
- Linux OS internals
- performance optimization
- kernel-level troubleshooting
- Kubernetes clusters
- container mechanics
- networking
- traffic systems
- critical incidents

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