Engineering Manager, Core Networking - Stripe

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 Core Networking team at Stripe owns the critical network components used by all product teams to build micro-services which support our business. This includes defining and driving the vision necessary to achieve best of breed scale, availability, performance, and observability. Some of the technologies that we work with include Linux OS, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, and AWS networking components. We continuously invest in building new distributed services and scaling existing technologies like our service mesh and service discovery to enable Stripe Product and Infrastructure teams.

Stripe’s infrastructure powers businesses all over the world. We process payments, run marketplaces, detect fraud, help entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world, build world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more. Every request we process is very important to everyone involved and Stripe’s network availability and reliability are critical because our users’ businesses depend on us. Our Core Networking organization provides the underlying infrastructure that’s at the heart of all real-time critical payment requests to the Stripe API.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities

• Develop engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers
• Enable Core Networking to empower Stripe engineers to succeed by:
• Understanding what a high-quality developer experience works like
• Collecting and analyzing data to inform the team’s approach
• Talking to our customers and learning about their challenges, and
• Guiding your team to deliver the right results
• Understand how low-level system details (such as kernel and OS versions, parameters, configuration, and code) impact the correctness, efficiency, security, and performance of Stripe’s production workloads
• Hire and grow Stripes to build a team of engineers
  
  Be directly responsible for defining and implementing transformational network strategy that powers Stripe for the next five years
• Work with engineers and other leaders to improve our offering, primarily in the areas of availability, performance, and observability
• Support the engineering team in achieving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and developer satisfaction
• Understand how low-level networking and Operating System details impact the correctness, efficiency, security, and performance of Stripe’s production workloads, in order to mitigate outage risk.
• Recruit great engineers and managers in collaboration with Stripe’s recruiting team.
  Mentor and coach your engineers, working with your peers to create healthy and well-executing teams
• Develop engineers on the team, enabling them to advance in their careers

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. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience
• 4+ years of software development experience 
• 2+ years of cloud development or management experience
• Experience using in-depth knowledge of systems and networking to solve and unblock technical problems, and drive roadmap initiatives
• Experience running highly efficient teams

Preferred qualifications

• Experience managing remote and distributed teams
• Experience working closely across geographies, and managing a team where important partners are many timezones away
• Experience managing large scale dataplane fleet
• Experience managing distributed systems and control-planes in Cloud environment 

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