Engineering Manager Core Performance

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 tier-0 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 for the Core Performance team at Stripe youll lead a team responsible for driving improvements in efficiency and latency across Stripe.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow an engineering team in Sydneyhire coach mentor and develop engineers at all levels

Partner with engineering teams across Stripe to identify and implement infrastructure solutions that enhance scalability reliability and efficiency

Create team vision define goals prioritize work and deliver high-quality outcomes

Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence innovation and continuous improvement

Collaborate with staff engineers and technical leadership on architecture and strategic technical decisions translating technical strategy into team-level plans

Work effectively with geographically distributed colleagues and remote workers to ensure alignment and visibility

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 software engineering experience including at least 5 years in engineering management. You have a proven track record of leading growing and aligning inclusive teams including remote and distributed engineers

Deep background in the performance efficiency and capacity planning of large-scale infrastructure platforms capable of handling millions of requests per second (RPS)

Extensive hands-on experience with cloud technologies (preferably AWS) core infrastructure components (Compute Linux Storage) and relevant programming languages (e.g. Go Ruby Java)

Demonstrated acumen in guiding technical strategy architecture and roadmap planning for complex infrastructure systems in ambiguous fast-changing environments

Excellent analytical and communication skills with the ability to leverage data to drive decision-making and influence cross-functional teams across all levels of the organization