Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Core
Design and build validation systems, CI/CD gates, and operator tooling to ensure safe regional launches, traffic migrations, and failovers for Stripe's global infrastructure.
Role type
Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure (Regional Enablement Platform)
Builds
Regionalization validation, deploy-safety tooling, traffic replay systems, and reusable readiness checks for new regions and acquisitions.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Financial Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
distributed systems, platform engineering, backend infrastructure, operational safety, system reliability, security, zero-downtime migrations, technical strategy, mentoring, cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI)
Preferred skills
large-scale migration validation, strict reliability/latency/availability design, observability (metrics/logs/tracing), networking/service discovery/traffic routing, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go
Technologies
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go
Responsibilities
Define evidence-based readiness criteria for regional launches and failovers; Proactively identify and mitigate risks on critical payment paths; Lead end-to-end cross-functional delivery for new-region infrastructure; Build reusable validation tooling for infrastructure integration; Convert operational friction into scalable platform capabilities; Lead technical conversations and define decision mechanisms across teams; Develop and communicate a multi-year technical strategy; Debug production issues across the stack; Mentor and grow senior engineers.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with cross-region leadership
