Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Core
Design and build validation systems, CI/CD gates, and operator tooling to ensure safe regional launches, traffic migrations, and failovers for Stripe's global infrastructure.
Role type
Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure (Regional Enablement Platform)
Builds
Regionalization validation, deploy-safety tooling, traffic replay systems, and reusable readiness checks for new regions and acquisitions.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Financial Infrastructure
Required skills
distributed systems, platform engineering, backend infrastructure, operational safety, system reliability, security, zero-downtime migrations, technical strategy, mentoring, cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI)
Preferred skills
large-scale migration validation, strict reliability/latency/availability design, observability (metrics/logs/tracing), networking/service discovery/traffic routing, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go
Technologies
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go
Responsibilities
Define evidence-based readiness criteria for regional launches and failovers; Proactively identify and mitigate risks on critical payment paths; Lead end-to-end cross-functional delivery for new-region infrastructure; Build reusable validation tooling for infrastructure integration; Convert operational friction into scalable platform capabilities; Lead technical conversations and define decision mechanisms across teams; Develop and communicate a multi-year technical strategy; Debug production issues across the stack; Mentor and grow senior engineers.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with cross-region leadership
