Engineering Manager - Core Performance

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Who We Are

About Stripe

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. Stripe's mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

About the Team

Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe's systems, as well as the productivity and sentiment of Stripe's people. Core Infrastructure supports Stripe's critical tier-0 infrastructure systems, including Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching, and High Assurance Engineering. The team builds foundational platforms for Stripe products and services to operate at scale, driving reliability, availability, efficiency, and scalability.

As an Engineering Manager for the Core Performance team, you will lead a team responsible for improving efficiency and latency across Stripe.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow an engineering team in Sydney by hiring, coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers at all levels.
• Partner with engineering teams across Stripe to identify and implement infrastructure solutions that improve scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
• Create team vision, define goals, prioritize work, and deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with staff engineers and technical leadership on architecture and strategic technical decisions, translating technical strategy into team-level plans.
• Work effectively with geographically distributed colleagues and remote workers to ensure alignment and visibility.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in engineering management.
• A proven track record of leading, growing, and aligning inclusive teams, including remote and distributed engineers.
• Deep background in the performance, efficiency, and capacity planning of large-scale infrastructure platforms capable of handling millions of requests per second (RPS).
• Extensive hands-on experience with cloud technologies, preferably AWS; core infrastructure components such as Compute, Linux, and Storage; and relevant programming languages such as Go, Ruby, and Java.
• Demonstrated ability to guide technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap planning for complex infrastructure systems in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to use data to drive decision-making and influence cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization.