Staff Distributed Systems Engineer Stripe

Architect Stripe’s high-throughput screening infrastructure in Toronto, balancing low latency, accuracy, reliability, and evolving financial crimes controls.This Staff Software Engineer role owns technical strategy for distributed screening and detection systems. You will establish multi-year architecture, guide platform modernization, and address entity- and transaction-level requests at scale. Collaboration with Legal, Compliance, ML, and Product turns regulatory requirements into dependable software.Key Responsibilities:
Establish technical vision for real-time screening infrastructureOptimize distributed systems under strict SLA and uptime guaranteesOwn reliability, observability, latency, and operational readinessDevelop multi-tenant screening platforms and developer-facing APIsDrive alignment across engineering and cross-functional leadersRequirements:
10+ years of software engineering experienceStrategic leadership across core infrastructure or platform engineeringProven high-throughput, low-latency API experienceTrack record defining roadmaps across engineering teamsHands-on architecture, performance tuning, and debugging depthBring distributed systems leadership to Stripe’s screening platform, connecting technical strategy with reliability, scale, and compliance.
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