Corporate Systems Engineer

Overview

The Corporate Engineering team builds and maintains the systems that keep Stripe running smoothly. Your work will connect our team members around the world and contribute directly to Stripe’s mission of increasing the GDP of the internet. As a Corporate Systems Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling the internal infrastructure and systems that our team members depend on to be happy and productive.

You will:

• Design, build, and scale Stripe’s systems that secure and manage our growing fleet of endpoints, global corporate networks, and A/V infrastructure
• Work with Enterprise and Security teams to keep abreast of company growth and industry trends and iterate on automated deployment, configuration, and monitoring processes
• Drive projects to completion and participate in team activities: daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, roadmap planning, incident reviews, and project retrospectives
• Measure, monitor and alert on all key services and products in our portfolio
• Participate in an on-call and run rotation
• Help grow and mentor the IT organization

Our ideal candidate will possess:

• Empathetic, humble and customer focused demeanor
• Experience with creating platforms that administer and monitor Linux, macOS and/or Windows systems and applications, using a mixture of open-source and commercial software
• Demonstrated success with scripting (Python, Ruby, Golang, or shell/Powershell) and building internal tools that automate application distribution and endpoint or server management
• Proven track record of leveraging configuration management tools to build or maintain complex systems and services. Proficient with one of the following CM tools: Chef, Puppet, Ansible or SaltStack
• 5+ years of relevant technical experience in systems engineering or developer operations
• Previous experience deploying and managing systems for a hyper-growth enterprise company
• Fluency with network infrastructure and protocols such as TCP/IP
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal