# Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Service Discovery, Configuration Management, Production Change Management, Data Processing, Apache Airflow, Spark, Apache Iceberg, Amazon Web Services, DynamoDB, Aurora, Python, Go, Java
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> Leads multiple infrastructure engineering teams, setting strategy, guiding architecture, developing senior talent, and driving reliability and scalability. Requires 10+ years of software development experience, 4+ years of engineering management experience, and strong cross-functional leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Lead with scope and autonomy by driving impact across multiple teams or a significant infrastructure area independently, translating organizational goals into concrete execution plans, and delivering results across parallel workstreams.
- Define strategy and roadmap for the area, anticipating internal user needs, technical challenges, reliability risks, and business priorities, then communicate a clear plan to the team and senior leadership.
- Develop senior talent by coaching senior engineers and emerging leaders, creating meaningful stretch opportunities, and giving candid feedback that improves individual and team performance.
- Drive cross-functional alignment with product, security, data, support, and adjacent engineering teams; resolve ambiguity at team boundaries and align stakeholders around shared priorities.
- Hire and scale the team by attracting, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent while maintaining a high hiring bar and building an inclusive, high-performing organization.
- Set high standards for reliability, availability, scalability, incident response, and engineering craft, and address systemic issues affecting internal users across Stripe.
- Partner with Staff engineers on architecture decisions involving distributed systems, service discovery, configuration propagation, production change management, data processing, and internal platform design.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years of software development experience.
- 4+ years of engineering management experience with a demonstrated track record of autonomous impact.
- Experience leading high-complexity engineering teams delivering multiple difficult, high-impact workstreams in parallel.
- Ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority and communicate a clear direction others follow.
- Meaningful recruiting experience, including attracting and developing senior engineering talent.
- Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture decisions and maintain high standards for product quality, reliability, and engineering craft.

## Nice-to-haves

- Experience building or operating high-availability distributed systems, internal platforms, or developer infrastructure used by a broad engineering audience.
- Experience with service networking, service discovery, service mesh, feature flags, configuration management, progressive delivery, deployment tooling, or production change governance.
- Experience with data infrastructure, including large-scale storage, data orchestration, batch compute, or processing frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hadoop, or Apache Celeborn.
- Experience improving reliability through observability, health checks, incident response, automated recovery, capacity planning, or reducing the impact of production changes.
- Experience designing secure access controls, audit systems, approval workflows, or governance mechanisms for production infrastructure.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems technologies such as Amazon Web Services, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, Ruby, Go, Java, or Python.
- Product mindset for internal platforms, including empathy for internal users, focus on self-service, and commitment to making safe workflows straightforward to adopt.

## Work Arrangement

- Office-assigned employees in most locations are expected to spend at least 50% of their time each month in their local office or with users. Expectations may vary by role, team, and location.

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