Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$236,000–$354,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $166,055–$254,488 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $295k versus about $210k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses, providing payment processing, billing, fraud prevention, and banking-as-a-service APIs to businesses of all sizes globally. Industry: Payments Infrastructure & Financial Technology

Stripe currently has 140 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 137 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

The Engineering Manager, Infrastructure (Privy) leads and shapes high-performing engineering teams to drive the success of Privy’s infrastructure product. This role involves owning long-term team outcomes, defining the future vision of infrastructure, and holding the team accountable for quality, throughput, and performance. You will lead active work across service definition, reliability engineering, and developer tooling while acting as a player-coach who reviews PRs and writes design docs. The role requires expertise in complex technologies including secure enclaves (TEEs), multi-region low-latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions. You will utilize Node, React, and AWS to build powerful abstractions for internal and external consumers. Key competencies include infrastructure automation, capacity planning, performance tuning, and experience with high-throughput systems for trading or payment processing.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in New York?

Median $254488 from 42 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own long-term team outcomes and the success of Privy’s product and business.
  • Drive the future vision for infrastructure using technologies like secure enclaves and BYOC deployments.
  • Hold the team accountable for excellence in software quality, throughput, and performance.
  • Lead infrastructure work across service definition, reliability engineering, and developer tooling.
  • Align team projects with business impact and build interfaces with other organizational parts.
  • Act as a player-coach by reviewing PRs, writing design docs, and investigating incidents.
  • Coach engineers toward their individual growth and career goals.
  • Build a supportive and motivating team culture to ensure weekly wins.

What we're looking for

  • Strong past experience as a manager and leader.
  • Technical excellence to independently evaluate quality and technical feedback.
  • Deep ownership and a high-level perspective on driving overall business impact.
  • High emotional maturity, insightfulness, and care.
  • Experience designing and operating systems supporting hundreds of millions of users (preferred).
  • Experience with secure enclave platforms, like AWS Nitro Enclaves (preferred).
  • Experience with observability, incident response, capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure automation (preferred).
  • Background in building low-latency, high-throughput systems for trading or payment processing (preferred).

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