Senior Staff Engineer- Core Infrastructure

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.

Our infrastructure supports businesses worldwide by processing payments, managing marketplaces, assisting entrepreneurs in launching internet businesses, and more. The Core Infra organization comprises teams responsible for operating system components, databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), high availability & disaster recovery, AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, change management, and network edge infrastructure. We’re actively collaborating with the open source community. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe’s infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. Your solutions will allow our business to achieve a best in class price/performance ratio.

As a Technical Leader, you’ll be responsible for driving forward progress across multiple organizations for Stripe’s most critical initiatives. Your work will have a direct correlation between Stripe's (and our user's) bottom line.

• Define and own the technical roadmaps for large cross-cutting efforts that span the Core Infrastructure, with Stripe-wide impact
• Own and drive cross functional partnerships with organizations spanning Infrastructure, Service Platform, Developer Experience, Data Platform, Product Engineering, Finance, Risk, Operations, and GTM teams, and partner closely with the leadership/stakeholders of various teams within those organizations 
• Establish project ownership and contribute to prioritization and execution with the appropriate amount of urgency
• Present clear, thoughtful, and opinionated analysis to senior leaders, enabling them to make tough and impactful decisions with clear tradeoffs
• Have excellent judgment and operate with minimal oversight
• Make impactful, hands-on contributions throughout the project lifecycle, from scoping to design, coding, and operations
• Mentor and sponsor experienced managers and/or very experienced engineers, assist with team growth and development, and set the culture bar for excellence and technical curiosity

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. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

• Minimum of 15+ years of engineering experience OR equivalent combined work experience reflecting domain expertise as relevant to this position 
• Demonstrated experience of leading company-wide initiatives spanning hundreds of engineers across multiple teams and organizations while leveraging deep domain expertise to influence technical roadmaps, planning,and execution
• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive business outcomes 
• Demonstrated ability to balance execution and velocity with security, reliability, and efficiency
• Experience, mentoring, and investing in the development engineers and peers 
• Demonstrated adaptability and resilience in the face of novel technical and organizational challenges

• Expertise with tackling complex, distributed systems/infrastructure challenges at scale
• Relevant domain experience with databases / storage, compute, and networking
• Practical experience architecting and operating modern global  infrastructure 
• User-centric orientation and track record for productizing complex infrastructure
• Enjoy staying close to the code and technical details