Engineering Manager, Core Events

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager in the infrastructure organization, you will lead the development of Stripe's Event Infrastructure, responsible for capturing, routing, and persisting billions of events daily.

Responsibilities

• Architect the Org & Culture: Design and scale a high-leverage org structure, defining what 'Elite Engineering' looks like and setting the bar for craftsmanship and operational rigor.
• Vision and Strategy: Define the scope, vision, and goals for your organization with little or no guidance from your manager, anticipating industry trends and influencing Stripe's long-range plans.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Instill a culture of rigorous thinking and meticulous craftsmanship, ensuring our infrastructure remains proactive and resilient as Stripe's business demands evolve.
• Bridge Engineering & Business: Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to align deep engineering needs with global business growth forecasts.
• Build the Future Team: Proactively invest in the development of the organization and its people at all levels, obsessing over talent and hiring and coaching other managers to elevate the skills of the leadership team.

Who You Are

We are looking for a visionary leader who thrives on operating Tier0 infrastructure and building world-class teams, equally comfortable in high-level strategic conversations and deep-diving into database internals.

Minimum Requirements

• Proven Leadership: Minimum 5 years of experience in a technical engineering management role, overseeing strategic projects.
• Systems Expertise: A deep technical background in distributed systems and experience operating Tier0 infrastructure at massive scale.
• Product Mindset: Ability to bridge deep engineering needs with global business growth forecasts and product strategy, specifically building abstractions that empower thousands of other developers.
• Strategic Navigator: Experience managing through ambiguity and making critical trade-offs between reliability, efficiency, and long-term architectural health.
• Curiosity and Humility: A deep curiosity about the 'nuts-and-bolts' of the business (e.g., global money movement) combined with the humility to continue learning and growing as a leader.
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Scale and Infrastructure: Successfully shipped and operated critical infrastructure (database internals or related field) with significant responsibility over funds and/or critical data.
• Strategic Ambiguity: Ability to navigate complex, high-impact work where you must define your own scope and vision.
• Cross-Functional Influence: A track record of getting other teams on board with your vision to support execution in a way that benefits the broader company.

In-office expectations

In-Office: Stripe is a 'Live' culture. You will be expected to spend at least 50% of your time in your local hub to foster high-bandwidth, in-person collaboration.