About the Company
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
The Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) organization at Stripe is building a modern, revenue-focused, financial management platform for fast-growing, digital-native companies. Hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes and types use Stripe Billing to collect revenue for recurring and one-time payments across a variety of different pricing models - from selling SaaS subscriptions, to orchestrating multi-stage contracts, delivering Usage-Based Billing, and providing recovery and retention tools to prevent customer churn.
The Metronome Infrastructure team builds and operates the infrastructure that Metronome product teams use to help users model and run their businesses. We own cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, databases, observability, deployments, and developer productivity. Working closely with Stripe Infrastructure, we scale our systems to support Stripe Revenue Suite's rapid growth and help engineers build and ship faster through integrations with Stripe's infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer on the Metronome Infrastructure team, you'll build and scale the core systems our product teams rely on. Your work could include expanding database, network, or container orchestration capacity, or integrating AI tooling into our production stack across cloud infrastructure, observability, and deployments. You'll take on startup-level ownership while collaborating across teams and drawing on Stripe's deep technical expertise in operating at global scale.
- Design, build, and maintain distributed cloud infrastructure and platform services
- Work on scaling, automation, reliability, and observability of infrastructure services
- Operate your services, debug issues, and support customers
- Participate in roadmap planning and prioritization.
Candidate Profile & Mindset
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
- 2+ years of experience in backend software development
- Ability to write high-quality code (in programming languages like Go, Java, C/C++, etc.)
- Hands-on experience contributing to or building large-scale distributed systems
- Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work across work streams within your team and contribute to your peers' success
- Ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, with an entrepreneurial mindset
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures
- Experience with subscription management, usage-based billing, or financial reporting systems
- Interest in financial infrastructure and how businesses manage their revenue operations
- Direct leadership and mentorship experience
About Stripe
Stripe, founded in 2010 by Patrick and John Collison in South San Francisco and Dublin, builds financial infrastructure for the internet. Its APIs let millions of businesses accept payments, manage subscriptions, prevent fraud with Radar, and move money with Connect and Treasury. Valued at $65B+ after its 2024 rounds and processing over $1T annually, Stripe is the default for marketplaces, SaaS and AI startups. In Web3, Stripe's crypto on-ramps and USDC payouts bridge traditional checkout with on-chain treasury. Teams emphasize written clarity, rigorous productcraft and owning money movement that must work every time. In addition to global payments infrastructure, Stripe invests heavily in crypto developer tools, USDC stablecoin settlement rails, and automated merchant payouts.