Infra Engineering Manager - Scale Reliable, Secure Platforms

EngineersOfAI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead or influence multiple infrastructure teams within our global platform. You will balance reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience while delivering results with autonomy.

You will collaborate with product, security, data, and platform leaders to set direction, resolve cross‑team dependencies, and grow senior engineering talent into higher‑impact roles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in software development.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead with scope and autonomy by driving impact across multiple teams or a significant infrastructure area independently, translating organizational goals into concrete execution plans, and delivering results across parallel workstreams
• Define strategy and roadmap for your area, anticipating internal user needs, technical challenges, reliability risks, and business priorities, then communicating a clear plan to your team and senior leadership
• Develop senior talent by coaching senior engineers and emerging leaders, creating meaningful stretch opportunities, and giving candid feedback that improves individual and team performance
• Drive cross-functional alignment with product, security, data, support, and adjacent engineering teams, resolving ambiguity at team boundaries and aligning stakeholders around shared priorities
• Hire and scale the team by attracting, developing, and retaining senior engineering talent while maintaining a high hiring bar and building an inclusive, high-performing organization
• Operate with rigor by setting high standards for reliability, availability, scalability, incident response, and engineering craft, and by addressing systemic issues that affect internal users across Stripe
• Partner with Staff engineers on architecture decisions involving distributed systems, service discovery, configuration propagation, production change management, data processing, and internal platform design

Skills

Software development

Engineering management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Stripe is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead or influence multiple infrastructure teams within our global platform. You will balance reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience while delivering results with autonomy.

You will collaborate with product, security, data, and platform leaders to set direction, resolve cross‑team dependencies, and grow senior engineering talent into higher‑impact roles.