Software Engineer, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Stripe
Seattle, WA · Posted September 14, 2026
Just laid off? Start here: a plan for the first weeks
More in Washington job market · All Software Engineer jobs (2,066) · Financial Services & Banking · Engineering jobs
More roles at Stripe
- Engineering Manager, Self Serve Direct Onboarding · New York City, NY
- Head of Platforms Solutions Architecture · San Francisco, CA
- Technical Program Manager, Terminal · San Francisco, CA
- Security Analyst
- Lifecycle Marketing Manager, Capital
- Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management
Similar jobs
- Principal Software Engineer, Developer Platforms · Cisco Systems · Seattle, WA
- Principal Software Engineer, Splunk Analytics and Search · Cisco Systems · Seattle, WA
- Senior Software Engineer (MES) (HYBRID TELEWORK) · Sikorsky Aircraft · Moorestown, NJ
- Senior Software Engineer · Elite Pharmaceuticals
- Senior Software Engineer - WGU Labs · Wgu · Raleigh, NC
- Lead Embedded Electronics Engineer · LNW Gaming · Las Vegas, NV
Where Seattle, WA ranks
Where Seattle, WA placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.
November 2026
- #1Cities with the most jobs that do not need a four-year degree in the Pacific Northwest316 jobs · of 8
- #1Best cities for software and engineering jobs in the Pacific Northwest1,776 openings · of 14
- #2Best cities for energy and utilities pay after cost of living$180k · of 18
- #2Best cities for entry-level jobs that want AI skills in the Pacific Northwest17% · of 12
- #2Best cities for AI-skill jobs in the Pacific Northwest26% · of 17
- #2Best cities for software and engineering jobs in the West Coast1,776 openings · of 60
Rankings about engineering jobs
- Best cities for software and engineering jobs #1 San Francisco (3,412 openings)
- Best cities for engineering pay after cost of living #1 San Mateo ($216k)
- Most requested AI skills in engineering jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (6.1%)
- AI tools named most often in engineering jobs #1 Claude (1.7%)
- Employers with the most engineering jobs #1 Amazon (2,992 roles)
Pay compared with the market
This listing does not state pay. Across 816 open software engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $150,000 to $247,000 and the median is $192,500.
Listed pay is what employers advertise, not what people are paid.
How AI is used in this kind of work
Among software developers, AI is already used for some of the tasks. Measured exposure for software developers: 29% (some).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
Skills this job asks for
Say which you have and which you want to build. We use it to match you to jobs like this one.
About the job
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
#LI-DNI