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About the Role
As an Engineering Manager for the Core Performance team at Stripe, you'll lead a team responsible for driving improvements in efficiency and latency across Stripe.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow an engineering team in Sydney—hire, coach, mentor, and develop engineers at all levels
- Partner with engineering teams across Stripe to identify and implement infrastructure solutions that enhance 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.
- 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 (Compute, Linux, Storage), and relevant programming languages (e.g., Go, Ruby, Java)
- Demonstrated acumen in guiding technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap planning for complex infrastructure systems in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
- Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to leverage data to drive decision-making and influence cross-functional teams across all levels of the organization
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Remote
- Distributed
Experience Level
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years in engineering management
About the Company
- 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.
- Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead.
- Stripe Infrastructure is responsible for the reliability, scale, performance, and cost of Stripe's systems and the productivity and sentiment of Stripe's people.
- We're the home for Stripe's critical tier-0 infrastructure systems (Compute, Networking, DocumentDB, Distributed Caching, and High Assurance Engineering).
- We build the foundational platform for Stripe products and services to allow them to operate at scale.
- We drive reliability, availability, efficiency, and scalability of these systems.