Staff Software Engineer, Service Infrastructure
Core
Lead a team of engineers to build and expand service frameworks that make complex systems easy to use, resilient, and scalable for Stripe's payment systems and other products.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead (Service Infrastructure)
Builds
Service frameworks, deployment tools, load balancers, web frameworks, databases, Kafka, and Kubernetes interfaces
Domain
Financial infrastructure, cloud-native systems, service-oriented architecture (SOA)
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic technical leadership, API design, framework development, incident response, high-performance infrastructure design, cross-functional collaboration, technical vision setting, hands-on architecture and design
Preferred skills
Distributed team leadership, serverless platform development, in-house ecosystem building, rigorous incident management, diverse infrastructure platform experience
Technologies
Java, Ruby, Python, Go, Kafka, Kubernetes, databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a team of engineers, partner with Engineering Managers on roadmaps, drive SOA adoption, oversee development lifecycle from planning to delivery, provide hands-on technical leadership including architecture and incident response, collaborate with company leaders on long-term service roadmap
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
