Description
Job Description
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.
The Core Infrastructure organization operates the foundational systems that power Stripe globally , including databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), high availability and disaster recovery (HADR), AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, and network edge infrastructure.
As a Staff Engineer on the Regional Enablement Platform (REP) team, you will play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe's infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. You will decide how Stripe validates that a new region can safely take traffic and continue working through network loss, failover, and deploy changes.
Responsibilities
- Define evidence-based readiness criteria for regional launches, traffic migrations, and failovers , replacing manual checklists with repeatable, globally consistent patterns
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks on critical payment paths; use system data to drive ownership and validate that platform mitigations measurably reduce impact
- Lead end-to-end cross-functional delivery for new-region infrastructure, including safe service behaviors for remote control planes
- Build reusable validation tooling that accelerates infrastructure integration for new acquisitions and reduces high-priority blockers
- Convert recurring operational friction into scalable platform capabilities used across teams
- Lead technical conversations and define decision mechanisms across Core Infrastructure and product teams
- Develop and communicate a multi-year technical strategy for REP with clearly defined quarterly milestones and success metrics
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
- Mentor and grow senior engineers, elevating technical planning, design standards, and cross-region execution from Bangalore
- Collaborate effectively in a global, distributed environment with asynchronous decision-making across AMER, EU, and APAC
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field
- 12+ years of professional experience in software or infrastructure engineering
- Proven track record leading complex, cross-team or company-wide infrastructure projects with high reliability and scale requirements
- Strong engineering background in distributed systems, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure, with a focus on operational safety and correctness
- Experience optimizing the reliability and security of distributed systems
- Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime
- Strong technical judgment and written communication skills, including design docs and trade-off analysis
- Experience mentoring engineers at various stages of their careers
- Experience with one or more major cloud providers , AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP
- Familiarity with ops culture and a solid understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards