The opportunity
Service Infrastructure enables Stripe’s engineers to build and ship products using efficient, reliable, service oriented architectures. This organization sits at the boundary between Infrastructure and Product where they engineer Stripe’s service frameworks, standard user-facing…
What you'll do
Collaborate with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support key engineering initiatives.
Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture/design,: vision/direction/requirements setting, and incident response processes) for your reports.
Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize the right engineering: work at the right time to enable product engineers to ship new features quickly and reliably.
Work with leaders across the company to drive improvements to Stripe’s architecture.
Lead and manage processes to help infra teams do their best work and: interface effectively with the rest of Stripe.
Manage and grow a team of engineers and engineering leaders, including line: managers, to deliver high business impact projects on schedule with high-quality.
What they're looking for
- + years of experience being a manager of managers (leading managers and: senior ICs) of teams of at least 25 people.
- + years of experience managing teams that ship and operate critical distributed system infrastructure.
- Led staff or principal engineers with a track record of driving alignment: between highly technical collaborators on architectural or strategic decisions.
- Managed effective incident response processes and on-call rotations.
- Managed engineering teams working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or: client libraries (e.g. building internal or external developer products).
- Effectively managed demanding/conflicting stakeholder and partner relationships.
- Experience driving business and product success in a highly cross-functional: organization with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
- Successfully built a team, defined its mission, and executed on its goals.: Experience recruiting, mentoring, and retaining great people that fulfill this mission.
