Engineering Manager – Core Tech

Engineering Manager – Core Tech

Requirements

• 10+ total years of engineering experience with a minimal 3 years of management experience.
• Experience in building and scaling distributed platforms with a focus on horizontal scaling and sharding, ensuring exceptional performance to meet the needs of diverse applications.
• Proven track record in managing teams that successfully shipped and operated critical software services, fostering a collaborative environment that values continuous improvement.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills that drive data-informed decision-making and foster a culture of excellence within the team.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with geographically distributed teams, promoting clear communication and collaboration across time zones to ensure alignment and shared goals.
• Successfully recruited, mentored, and built high-performing teams, creating an inclusive environment that attracts diverse talent and empowers individuals to thrive.
• Ability to operate with a high level of autonomy and responsibility, taking ownership of projects and driving initiatives that contribute to the overall success of the organization.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, enabling clear and persuasive interactions with colleagues and stakeholders, ensuring understanding of technical concepts and fostering collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers and leaders across Stripe to identify and capture opportunities to enhance our infrastructure platform, ensuring effective fault isolation, resource utilization, data security, and operational efficiency.
• Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and ease-of-use.
• Manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage effectively with the rest of Stripe.
• Engage with teams to create team vision, business goals, and yearly roadmaps.
• Use best of breed agile methodologies to consistently deliver on team commitments.
• Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team.
• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers.
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Stripe’s engineering management team.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering to provide a wonderful user experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with globally distributed systems and platforms.
• Proven track record of building and scaling infrastructure to support high availability and performance requirements, handling millions of requests per second.