The opportunity
As a Staff Engineer on REP, you will play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe's infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. You will decide how Stripe validates that a new region can safely take traffic and continue working through network loss, failover, and deploy changes.
What you'll do
Define evidence-based readiness criteria for regional launches, traffic: migrations, and failovers — replacing manual checklists with repeatable, globally consistent patterns
Proactively identify and mitigate risks on critical payment paths; use system: data to drive ownership and validate that platform mitigations measurably reduce impact
Lead end-to-end cross-functional delivery for new-region infrastructure,: including safe service behaviors for remote control planes
Build reusable validation tooling that accelerates infrastructure integration: for new acquisitions and reduces high-priority blockers
Convert recurring operational friction into scalable platform capabilities used across teams
Lead technical conversations and define decision mechanisms across Core Infrastructure and product teams
What they're looking for
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field
- + years of professional experience in software or infrastructure engineering
- Proven track record leading complex, cross-team or company-wide: infrastructure projects with high reliability and scale requirements
- Strong engineering background in distributed systems, platform engineering,: or backend infrastructure, with a focus on operational safety and correctness
- Experience optimizing the reliability and security of distributed systems
- Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime
- Strong technical judgment and written communication skills, including design docs and trade-off analysis
- Experience mentoring engineers at various stages of their careers
