Staff Software Engineer, Service Infrastructure

Stripe
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Mentorship","Critical thinking","Problem-solving","Communication","Growth mindset","Autonomy","Collaboration","Psychological safety"]

Lead Stripe’s Service Infrastructure team as a Technical Lead, driving service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption and high-performance infrastructure products used across internal and external customer journeys. You’ll lead a team of engineers, partner with engineering managers on roadmaps, guide architecture/design and incident response, and collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs to deliver resilient, scalable service frameworks.

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Staff Software Engineer, Service Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Lead Stripe’s Service Infrastructure team as a Technical Lead, driving service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption and high-performance infrastructure products used across internal and external customer journeys. You’ll lead a team of engineers, partner with engineering managers on roadmaps, guide architecture/design and incident response, and collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering orgs to deliver resilient, scalable service frameworks.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead a team of engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support.
  • •Partner with engineering managers to create roadmaps aligned to a cohesive engineering vision.
  • •Drive execution across the development lifecycle from planning to delivery while maintaining quality and timeliness.
  • •Provide hands-on technical leadership across architecture/design, requirements setting, and incident response processes.
  • •Advance Stripe’s services roadmap vision and collaborate with high-visibility infrastructure initiatives.

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of technical experience, including 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role.
  • •Experience leading engineering teams working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries for developer products.
  • •Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers.
  • •Strong communication and the ability to shift from high-level discussions to detailed coding.
  • •Proficiency in at least one programming language: Java, Ruby, Python, or Go.
Experience:12+ years
Skills:MentorshipCritical thinkingProblem-solvingCommunicationGrowth mindsetAutonomyCollaborationPsychological safety
Tech Stack:JavaRubyPythonGoAPI designAbstractionsFrameworksClient librariesDeploymentLoad balancersWeb frameworkDatabasesKafkaKubernetesService-oriented architecture (SOA)LoggingEvent streamsMetricsCachingServerless

Company Brief

Stripe
Provides payment processing APIs and financial infrastructure for internet businesses. Powers online payments for millions of companies from startups to Fortune 500s.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2010
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