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 Compute Foundation group builds and operates the core systems that enable every Stripe engineer to ship code, configuration, and infrastructure changes safely and at high velocity. Embedded on the Imaging team, you will design, build, and distribute Linux machine images; manage host bootstrapping and OS-configuration systems; oversee OS packages and security-patching infrastructure; and provide platforms that empower service teams to safely run workloads across cloud providers and regions.
Responsibilities
- Lead large, ambiguous infrastructure projects from initial design through production launch, broad adoption, and long-term operation.
- Set technical direction for the evolution of Stripe’s host infrastructure, including how machine images are built, validated, distributed, and operated.
- Design systems and practices that make broad infrastructure changes safe and predictable.
- Lead incident response for the systems the team owns.
- Partner with technical leaders across infrastructure, security, compliance, and service teams to represent the Imaging team’s perspective and align on shared technical direction.
- Lead critical design reviews and establish standards for the safety, reliability, operability, and usability of Stripe’s host infrastructure.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of designing and shipping production infrastructure systems of significant scale and complexity.
- Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous infrastructure projects end-to-end.
- Deep expertise in Linux systems, including boot and initialization, systems, processes, networking, filesystems, storage, packages, and production debugging.
- Experience designing or operating fleet-scale image, host-management, configuration-management, or infrastructure-provisioning systems.
- Experience with safe infrastructure rollout practices, including automated validation, canarying, progressive rollout, health evaluation, rollback, and blast-radius containment.
- Strong background in service reliability and operational excellence.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building modern image-based, immutable, or declarative infrastructure platforms.
- Expertise with containers, Kubernetes, and migrating VM-based workloads to managed platforms.
- Experience operating large-scale Linux fleets across AWS, Azure, or multiple regions.
- Familiarity with progressive delivery, automated validation, fleet health signals, and rollback systems.