Senior Staff Engineer, Stripe

• 15+ years of professional experience in an infrastructure focused software development role
• Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g. building internal or external developer products)
• A strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure and/or platform services, including one or more of the following: developer facing abstractions, productivity tooling, storage, databases, compute
• Experience leading projects on a cross-team and company-wide scale
• Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime
• Experience mentoring engineers at various stages in their careers
• Experience driving a culture of operational excellence, with a deep understanding of metrics, alerts, and dashboards
• Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth
• Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication
• Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset
• Proficient in at least one of Stripe’s core programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Go)

Desirable

• We’re looking for engineering leaders who can drive the technical vision of Stripe’s service infrastructure for thousands of engineers and thrive in a highly autonomous environment with many moving pieces
• You’ll lead in a large organization of talented engineers where your expertise and influence will empower our teams and the business to scale effectively
• You will design and deliver capabilities, abstractions, and tools that provide Stripe engineers with a world class developer experience and you will advance Stripe’s infrastructure to meet our consistently rising bar for reliability and performance
• You’ll collaborate with engineers across the company to design and build large-scale capabilities, while simultaneously enhancing our internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Most importantly, you’ll operate with an extreme degree of user focus
• You’ll work directly with engineers leaders across product and infrastructure to discover and translate business needs into engineering plans that deliver high-impact business results
• Lead the design, planning, construction, and maintenance of Service Infrastructure frameworks and SDKs utilized throughout Stripe
• Collaborate with the leadership team to identify current and future infrastructure needs across Stripe, understand specific requirements, and prioritize both short-term and long-term solutions
• Influence and participate in company level roadmap planning and prioritization
• Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion
• Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making across the broader Infrastructure organization and Stripe’s product teams
• Drive a culture of technical excellence, mentoring and cultivating the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
• Identify and fix architectural limitations that might prevent Stripe from realizing its goals
• Debug production issues across services and various levels of the stack
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within our organization