Backend Engineer, Core Tech, Canada
Core
Design, build, test, and ship code for Stripe's critical tier0 infrastructure systems, developer tools, and data serving platforms to ensure reliability, scale, and performance.
Role type
Senior Backend Engineer (Infrastructure & Data Platform)
Builds
Foundational platform systems, inner dev loop tools, and large-scale data serving infrastructure
Domain
Financial technology infrastructure, distributed systems, and data platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure | product features
Required skills
Go, Java, C/C++, distributed systems design, algorithm implementation, debugging production issues, roadmap planning, stakeholder collaboration
Preferred skills
End-to-end performance optimization of distributed systems, high production standards, user-centric focus
Technologies
Go, Java, C/C++, Trino/Presto, Apache Pinot, Hive Metastore, ElasticSearch
Responsibilities
Build customer experience for internal and external teams using infrastructure, participate in roadmap planning and prioritization, deliver value through collaboration with stakeholders, debug production issues across services and stack levels
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC