Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure

Who we areAbout Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use 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 everyone’s 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 Stripe’s systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe’s people. You may work on a wide variety of critical business areas within Core Infrastructure. We’re the home for Stripe's critical tier0 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 you’ll do

As an Engineering Manager in Core Infrastructure at Stripe, you will lead a team solving challenging distributed systems problems and drive critical improvements in our foundational platform. Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with senior leadership to define and execute strategic initiatives for Stripe's core infrastructure.
• Leading and mentoring a team of experienced engineers, fostering their growth and career development.
• Driving technical decisions and architectural improvements for large-scale, distributed systems.
• Partnering with product and engineering teams across Stripe to identify and implement infrastructure solutions that enhance scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Cultivating a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Supporting the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and ease-of-use.
• Recruiting great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe's recruiting team.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.

Minimum requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering, with at least 3-4 years in engineering management roles.
• Deep expertise in designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure.
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
• Strong background in multiple areas of infrastructure, such as compute, networking, databases, caching systems, or storage.
• Proven track record of leading and growing high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience in managing geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical strategy and roadmap planning for complex infrastructure systems.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with globally distributed systems and multi-region architectures.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of performance optimization and capacity planning for large-scale systems.
• Experience in scaling infrastructure platforms to handle millions of requests per second (RPS).
• Track record of successful cross-functional project leadership.
• Familiarity with programming languages commonly used in infrastructure, such as Go, Ruby, or Java.