Stripe10 days ago

Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

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Responsibilities

  • 01Lead 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
  • 02Define 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
  • 03Develop senior talent by coaching senior engineers and emerging leaders, creating meaningful stretch opportunities, and giving candid feedback that improves individual and team performance
  • 04Drive cross-functional alignment with product, security, data, support, and adjacent engineering teams, resolving ambiguity at team boundaries and aligning stakeholders around shared priorities
  • 05Hire 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
  • 06Operate 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
  • 07Partner with Staff engineers on architecture decisions involving distributed systems, service discovery, configuration propagation, production change management, data processing, and internal platform design

Requirements

  • 01Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience with 10+ years of software development experience
  • 024+ years of engineering management experience with a demonstrated track record of autonomous impact as an engineering manager
  • 03Experience leading high-complexity engineering teams that deliver multiple difficult, high-impact workstreams in parallel
  • 04Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority, communicating a clear direction that others follow
  • 05Meaningful recruiting experience, including a track record of attracting and developing senior engineering talent
  • 06Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture decisions and hold teams to a high standard for product quality, reliability, and engineering craft