# Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Platform Engineering, Backend Infrastructure, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, Networking, Service Discovery, Traffic Routing, Databases, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Leads the design and validation of resilient regional infrastructure for globally scaled payment systems, including launches, failovers, migrations, and CI/CD readiness gates. Requires 12+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, distributed-systems expertise, cloud experience, and strong technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Define evidence-based readiness criteria for regional launches, traffic migrations, and failovers, replacing manual checklists with repeatable, globally consistent patterns.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks on critical payment paths; use system data to drive ownership and validate that platform mitigations measurably reduce impact.
- Lead end-to-end cross-functional delivery for new-region infrastructure, including safe service behaviors for remote control planes.
- Build reusable validation tooling that accelerates infrastructure integration for new acquisitions and reduces high-priority blockers.
- Convert recurring operational friction into scalable platform capabilities used across teams.
- Lead technical conversations and define decision mechanisms across Core Infrastructure and product teams.
- Develop and communicate a multi-year technical strategy for REP with clearly defined quarterly milestones and success metrics.
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
- Mentor and grow senior engineers, elevating technical planning, design standards, and cross-region execution from Bengaluru.
- Collaborate effectively in a global, distributed environment with asynchronous decision-making across AMER, EU, and APAC.

## Requirements

- BS or MS in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
- 12+ years of professional experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
- Proven track record leading complex, cross-team or company-wide infrastructure projects with high reliability and scale requirements.
- Strong engineering background in distributed systems, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure, with a focus on operational safety and correctness.
- Experience optimizing the reliability and security of distributed systems.
- Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime.
- Strong technical judgment and written communication skills, including design documents and trade-off analysis.
- Experience mentoring engineers at various career stages.
- Experience with one or more major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP.
- Familiarity with operations culture and a solid understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards.

## Nice-to-haves

- Experience validating large-scale migrations, failovers, regional launches, regionalization, or control-plane behavior.
- Experience designing or operating infrastructure with strict reliability, correctness, latency, or availability requirements.
- Strong observability judgment across metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and incident analysis.
- Experience with networking, service discovery, traffic routing, databases, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure.
- Experience reducing packet loss, network latency, cross-region dependency risk, or other infrastructure failure modes.
- Experience making infrastructure validation or readiness evidence usable by service owners, operators, or partner teams.
- Experience turning repeated operational problems into reusable tools, standards, or platform mechanisms.
- 3+ years of experience with Go.

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