# Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery at Stripe

> Build and deploy multi-region architecture and automated failover systems that keep production highly available and recoverable.

- Company: Stripe (stripe.com)
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Places: Seattle, United States
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Team: High Availability and Disaster Recovery
- Work mode: Hybrid
- Type: Full-time
- Pay: $206,086 - $285,600/yr
- Apply: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=8197135
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/software-engineer-high-availability-and-disaster-recovery-stripe-kn7fezrqb6wen73wqty2p41yed8hcp3h

## The posting

Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Stripe · Seattle, WA

## **Who we are**

### **About Stripe**

Stripe, LLC. 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.

## **What you’ll do**

### **Responsibilities**

- Develop global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole.
- Work on latency-critical, time-sensitive and data redundancy solutions.
- Solve broad range of problems, including investigating Mongo write concerns, minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes, and develop new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers.
- Enable the company to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection.
- Write code, scope, design, implement, and deploy solutions using multiple technologies, including: Ruby, Java, Mongo, Postgres, and other necessary tools as required.
- Investigate issues in live, distributed production systems.
- Collaborate across the company to provide an understanding of multi-region architectures, high durability implementation patterns, and best practices.
- Learn, meet, and uphold high engineering standards through design and code review.

## **Who you are**

### **Minimum requirements**

Must have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor’s progressive software development work experience. In the alternative, the employer is willing to accept a Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus three (3) years of software development work experience.

Must also have three (3) years of experience in each of the following:

- Go, Ruby, or Java programming languages;
- Database internals including data movement, leader election, and quorums;
- Cloud infrastructure services, including: S3, EBS, EC2, and VPCs, to deploy scalable applications;
- Designing and building Temporal workflows;
- Using Trino SQL for data analysis and visualization; and
- Designing fault-tolerant systems using data sharding and replication strategies.

Salary: $206,086 - $285,600/yr.

This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.

40 hrs/week

50% Telecommuting permitted.

Multiple Positions Available.

Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.**WA70**

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