[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Stripe logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2020/10/WRILS-201011073943-272457.png)](https://jobicy.com/company/stripe.md)[Stripe](https://jobicy.com/company/stripe.md) # Backend Engineer, Core Technology Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/stripe.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md)SalaryUndisclosedDepartment[Software Engineering](https://jobicy.com/categories/engineering.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceOpen levelPublished6 Oct 2026Apply before5 Nov 2026Listing views60Application actions3Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Stripe is seeking a Backend Engineer for its Core Technology and Infrastructure organization, working on foundational systems that support reliability, scale, performance, and developer productivity. The role may align with core infrastructure, developer infrastructure, data infrastructure, internal admin platforms, service platforms, or developer-productivity AI. Responsibilities include designing, building, testing, and shipping production code; debugging cross-stack incidents; contributing to roadmap prioritization; and collaborating with internal customers and stakeholders. Candidates need 2–12+ years of software development experience, strong algorithms and data structures knowledge, and hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems. The position emphasizes ownership, customer focus, production quality, and autonomous execution in a high-scale financial technology environment. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 4/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a technically demanding infrastructure engineering role involving distributed systems, production debugging, performance, reliability, and systems that operate at Stripe’s scale. The broad team matching process also requires adaptability across several complex platform domains and strong independent judgment. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job medianMarket rate$190,000US market range$140k–$260k0$286k AI insightNo salary or compensation range is disclosed in the posting. These figures are estimated annual US-market base-salary ranges in USD for a backend/distributed-systems engineer, accounting for the unusually broad 2–12+ years experience range, major US locations, and Stripe-scale infrastructure scope; equity and bonuses may be additional. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. [Backend Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Backend%20Engineering.md)[Distributed Systems](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Distributed%20Systems.md)[Go](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Go.md)[Java](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Java.md)[C/C++](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=CC%2B%2B.md)[Infrastructure Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Infrastructure%20Engineering.md)[Production Debugging](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Production%20Debugging.md)[Algorithms and Data Structures](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Algorithms%20and%20Data%20Structures.md)[System Reliability](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=System%20Reliability.md) Sample interview questionsDescribe a distributed system you built or materially improved. What problem did it solve, and how did you measure success?I would outline the system’s scale, architecture, and failure modes, then explain my specific contributions. I would quantify outcomes using metrics such as latency, availability, throughput, cost, error rate, or recovery time, and describe trade-offs made along the way. How would you investigate an intermittent latency increase affecting a critical production service? I would first define the blast radius using service-level indicators and compare healthy versus unhealthy requests. I would examine traces, logs, infrastructure metrics, dependency behavior, recent changes, and resource saturation, then mitigate customer impact before validating the root cause with a controlled fix. What design considerations are most important when building a highly available internal platform service? I would prioritize clear service boundaries, redundancy, graceful degradation, observability, capacity planning, secure defaults, and safe deployment mechanisms. I would also define reliability objectives and ensure the platform has understandable operational ownership and incident procedures. Tell us about a time you influenced a roadmap or technical priority without direct authority. I would explain how I gathered customer and operational evidence, translated it into a clear problem statement, and presented the trade-offs to stakeholders. I would emphasize active listening, alignment on measurable outcomes, and following through on the agreed decision. How do you balance shipping quickly with maintaining a high production-quality bar? I use risk-based delivery: isolate changes, add appropriate tests and monitoring, use staged rollouts, and keep rollback paths clear. For urgent work, I ship the smallest safe mitigation first and create explicit follow-up work to address underlying technical debt or resilience gaps. Opportunity details ## About this role. ### Who we are ### 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 Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe’s systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe’s people. You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas including: * Core Infrastructure—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. * Developer Infrastructure—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. * Data Infrastructure—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. * Admin Platform—We empower Stripes to quickly build secure and delightful internal products in service of their users. * Service Platform—We enable engineering teams at Stripe to easily write and ship useful services that correctly, reliably, and efficiently leverage platform capabilities. * Developer Productivity AI—We’re responsible for doubling Stripe’s engineering velocity through effective use of LLMs. We own Minions, Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents. Team matching—exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. Find more information on our team matching process [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zvJkO2c7GzukHG-_oqc5wbOLajpuh5FjbmZPcZPU1o0/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.x8j6mm75yuwr). ### What you’ll do You’ll work on projects that span technologies, systems, and processes where you’ll design, build, test, and ship great code every day. ### Responsibilities * Build a great customer experience for internal and external Stripe teams using our infrastructure * Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization * Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach with multiple customers and stakeholders across Stripe * Debug production issues across services and several levels of the stack ### Who you are 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. ### Minimum requirements * Strong software engineering skills and a passion for one of the areas above * Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++ etc.) * 2–12+ years of professional hands-on software development experience, able to write well-factored algorithms and have experience with commonly used data structures and algorithms * Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems * Strong collaboration skills, can work across workstreams within your team and contribute to your peers’ success * Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome * Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial ### Preferred qualifications * Experience optimizing the end-to-end performance of distributed systems * Focus on the needs of our users, both internal and external * Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production Show more [Apply now >](https://jobicy.com/jobs/154726-backend-engineer-core-technology.md) > Annual salary information is not provided for this position. 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