Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companiesfrom the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startupsuse 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 everyones reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability scale performance and cost of Stripes systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripes people. You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas within Core Infrastructure. Were the home for Stripes critical tier0 infrastructure systems (Compute Networking DocumentDB Distributed Caching and High assurance engineering). We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale. We drive reliability availability efficiency and scalability of these systems.
What youll do
As an Engineering Manager in Core Infrastructure at Stripe you will lead a team solving challenging distributed systems problems and drive critical improvements in our foundational platform. Your responsibilities will include:
- Collaborating with senior leadership to define and execute strategic initiatives for Stripes core infrastructure.
- Leading and mentoring a team of experienced engineers fostering their growth and career development.
- Driving technical decisions and architectural improvements for largescale distributed systems.
- Partnering with product and engineering teams across Stripe to identify and implement infrastructure solutions that enhance scalability reliability and efficiency.
- Cultivating a culture of engineering excellence innovation and continuous improvement.
- Supporting the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical quality reliability and easeofuse.
- Recruiting great engineers in collaboration with Stripes recruiting team.
Who you are
Were looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements you are encouraged to apply.
Minimum requirements
- 10 years of industry experience in software engineering with at least 34 years in engineering management roles.
- Deep expertise in designing building and operating largescale distributed systems and infrastructure.
- Extensive experience with cloud technologies preferably AWS.
- Strong background in multiple areas of infrastructure such as compute networking databases caching systems or storage.
- Proven track record of leading and growing highperforming engineering teams.
- Experience in managing geographically distributed teams.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organization.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with a datadriven approach to decisionmaking.
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and roadmap planning for complex infrastructure systems.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with globally distributed systems and multiregion architectures.
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of performance optimization and capacity planning for largescale systems.
- Experience in scaling infrastructure platforms to handle millions of requests per second (RPS).
- Track record of successful crossfunctional project leadership.
- Familiarity with programming languages commonly used in infrastructure such as Go Ruby or Java.
Required Experience:
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