The opportunity
Stripe's Infrastructure organization builds and operates the shared platforms that make it possible for engineering teams to build, deploy, run, and scale reliable products. The organization owns foundational capabilities across service networking and discovery, safe feature and…
What you'll do
Lead with scope and autonomy by driving impact across multiple teams or a: significant infrastructure area independently, translating organizational goals into concrete execution plans, and delivering results across parallel workstreams
Define strategy and roadmap for your area, anticipating internal user needs,: technical challenges, reliability risks, and business priorities, then communicating a clear plan to your team and senior leadership
Develop senior talent by coaching senior engineers and emerging leaders,: creating meaningful stretch opportunities, and giving candid feedback that improves individual and team performance
Drive cross-functional alignment with product, security, data, support, and: adjacent engineering teams, resolving ambiguity at team boundaries and aligning stakeholders around shared priorities
Hire and scale the team by attracting, developing, and retaining senior: engineering talent while maintaining a high hiring bar and building an inclusive, high-performing organization
Operate with rigor by setting high standards for reliability, availability,: scalability, incident response, and engineering craft, and by addressing systemic issues that affect internal users across Stripe
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience with 10+ years of software development experience
- + years of engineering management experience with a demonstrated track record: of autonomous impact as an engineering manager
- Experience leading high-complexity engineering teams that deliver multiple: difficult, high-impact workstreams in parallel
- Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without: direct authority, communicating a clear direction that others follow
- Meaningful recruiting experience, including a track record of attracting and: developing senior engineering talent
- Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture decisions and hold teams to: a high standard for product quality, reliability, and engineering craft
- Experience building or operating high-availability distributed systems,: internal platforms, or developer infrastructure used by a broad engineering audience
- Experience with service networking, service discovery, service mesh, feature: flags, configuration management, progressive delivery, deployment tooling, or production change governance
