Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Stripe; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Regional Enablement Platform (REP) in Bangalore to lead validation systems for new regions and ensure safe traffic with regional infrastructure changes. You will define checks for launch readiness and build CI/CD gates that govern deploys across regions.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive cross-region technical initiatives, and partner with product teams to improve platform reliability and scalability at scale.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
• 12+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Proven track record leading complex, cross-team infrastructure projects with high reliability and scale.
• Strong background in distributed systems, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure.
• Experience optimizing reliability and security of distributed systems.
• Experience scaling and migrating systems with minimal downtime.
• Strong written communication and design documentation skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers at various career stages.
• Experience with one or more major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP).
• Familiarity with ops culture, metrics, alarms, and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Define evidence-based readiness criteria for regional launches and failovers.
• Lead end-to-end cross-functional delivery for new-region infrastructure.
• Build reusable validation tooling for rapid infrastructure integration.
• Develop and communicate a multi-year technical strategy for REP.
• Mentor and grow senior engineers in Bangalore.
• Collaborate across AMER, EU, and APAC in a distributed environment.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Backend infrastructure

Leadership

Cloud providers

Mentoring

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

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.

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 Organization

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.

Within Core Infra, the Regional Enablement Platform (REP) team helps Stripe launch and operate new regions without learning about broken dependencies from users. REP builds the regionalization, validation, deploy-safety, and operator tooling needed to answer practical launch-readiness questions: can critical payment paths run from the new region, which services still depend on a remote control plane, what breaks under packet loss or failover, and what must be fixed before deploys, launches, traffic shifts, or failovers proceed. The team uses traffic replay, synthetics, failover drills, dependency analysis, CI/CD gates, and incident data to turn those findings into platform fixes, service-owner asks, and reusable readiness checks across networking, HADR, and service teams.

This role is based in Bangalore and serves as a senior technical anchor for Core Infrastructure in India, with direct cross-region influence across AMER, EU, and APAC.

What you'll do

As a Staff Engineer on REP, 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. You will define the checks that must pass before launch or failover, build validation systems that replay real production paths against regional infrastructure, and turn those checks into CI/CD gates, operator workflows, and concrete fixes for service or platform owners. You will also help build Core Infrastructure's senior technical bench in Bangalore through design review, mentoring, and cross-region technical leadership.

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

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

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience validating large-scale migrations, failovers, regional launches, regionalization, or control-plane behavior.
• Experience designing or operating infrastructure with strict reliability, correctness, latency, or availability requirements.
• Strong observability judgment across metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and incident analysis.
• Experience with networking, service discovery, traffic routing, databases, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience reducing packet loss, network latency, cross-region dependency risk, or other infrastructure failure modes.
• Experience making infrastructure validation or readiness evidence usable by service owners, operators, or partner teams.
• Experience turning repeated operational problems into reusable tools, standards, or platform mechanisms.
• 3+ years of experience with Go.

In-office expectations

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in-office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

Stripe does not yet include pay ranges in job postings in every country. Stripe strongly values pay transparency and is working toward pay transparency globally.

We look forward to hearing from you.

At Stripe, we're looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions. Join us.