Staff Engineer Production Eng
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Job Summary
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 is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world and were scaling in every dimension: users revenue people technology processes and more. The Production Eng team is building the systems that support Stripes API. Were looking for people passionate about distilling complexity across a breadth of problems caring deeply about both our infrastructure and the experience of using our platform. We are major contributors to the latency reliability and efficiency of Stripes API and youll be responsible for ensuring we maintain a reliable and secure platform.
What youll do
Production Eng is a unique environment where youll be working across all of Stripes products and truly steering the future of Stripes APIs Developer and User Experiences and working with world class engineers.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of talented engineers on the team providing mentorship guidance and support to ensure their success.
- Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision.
- Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high quality solutions that meet user needs.
- Drive the execution of projects overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion.
- Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructures key engineering initiatives.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture/design vision/direction/requirements setting and incident response processes) for team members.
- Build amazing end-to-end API developer experiences and Stripes public API infrastructure and tooling.
- Ensure our APIs are secure reliable and performant while solving product problems and building delightful API and developer experiences for our users.
- Building the future of the Stripe API and scaling Stripes API Infrastructure while working with product teams to extend the capabilities of our APIs.
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. The preferred qualifications are a bonus not a requirement.
Minimum Requirements
- 10 years of technical experience or 7 years in infrastructure / platform engineering field
- 5 years in a strategic technical leadership role
- Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design abstractions frameworks or client libraries (e.g. building internal or external developer products).
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers
- Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth
- Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding
- Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
- Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication
- Strong problem-solving skills critical thinking determination and a growth mindset
- Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people genuinely caring for each other and contributing to high level of psychological safety for all team members and partner
- Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java Ruby Python Go).
Preferred qualifications
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership users company-wide).
- Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases logging event streams metrics caching etc).
- Experience leading partially remote teams.
- Experience developing sustainable in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs.
- Experience building serverless platforms.
- Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on call rotations.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Stripe is a suite of APIs powering online payment processing and commerce solutions for internet businesses of all sizes. Accept payments and scale faster with AI.
