Engineering Manager, Streaming Platform

Who we are About Stripe

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. That
means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy
within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your
career.

About the team

The Streaming Infrastructure team builds and operates the streaming
platform that enables the flow of data between diverse systems at Stripe
and serves as a backbone of Stripe infrastructure. The team is
developing a globally distributed event bus to support Stripe's growing
scalability, reliability, and product requirements. We enable other
teams at Stripe by creating simple abstractions and providing
self-service tooling and dashboards to enable users to easily operate
services on our infrastructure. We minimize operational toil for the
team through regular investment in automation of maintenance operations.
We are looking for a manager who is excited about event-driven streaming
architecture and leading a team to solve challenging distributed systems
problems, as well as developing empathetic partnerships with other
Stripe teams to understand their use-cases and unlock new capabilities.

What you'll do

• Work on a high-visibility team and be part of shaping Stripe's long
  term streaming strategy.
  
• Work with engineers and other leaders at Stripe to understand
  opportunities to better leverage our streaming infrastructure
  
• Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical
  quality, reliability, and ease-of-use
  
• Lead and manage processes to help the team do its best work and engage
  effectively with the rest of Stripe
  
• 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
  

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be
considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are
encouraged to apply.
Minimum requirements

• At least 3 years of experience managing teams that shipped and
  operated critical distributed system infrastructure.
  
• Successfully recruited and built great teams.
  
• Works effectively cross-functionally and is able to think rigorously,
  communicate effectively, and make or coordinate hard decisions and
  trade-offs.
  
• Thrives with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility in an
  ambiguous environment.
  
• Technical acumen to drive clarity with staff engineers about
  architecture and technical strategic decisions.
  
• Encourage a healthy and inclusive work environment that's both
  challenging and supportive.
  

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka,
  Apache Flink or Amazon Kinesis.
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences
  (leadership, users, company-wide).
  
• Strong quantitative and analytical background.
  
• Productively lead fully remote teams.