Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NYSeattle, WASouth San Francisco, CA
Salary
$236,000–$354,000 / yr
Posted
28 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $214k
This role $295k
$128k most similar roles pay here $378k

This role pays more than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $174,387–$253,775 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $295k versus about $214k 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 173 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 171 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

Engineering Manager, Infrastructure leads teams within the Infrastructure organization to build and operate shared platforms that enable engineering teams to deploy and scale reliable products. You will manage multiple teams, develop senior talent, and define roadmaps for business-critical infrastructure with broad internal adoption. Your daily work involves balancing reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience while partnering with product, security, and data leaders to resolve cross-team dependencies. The role focuses on solving complex problems in service networking, discovery, configuration management, and data platforms. You will oversee systems involving distributed systems, batch computing, and large-scale processing. Key technologies mentioned include Apache Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Hadoop, Celeborn, Amazon Web Services, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, Ruby, Go, Java, and Python. You will ensure high standards for incident response, production change management, and internal platform design to support a global engineering audience.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Washington?

Median $267050 from 35 postings across 10 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Translate organizational goals into concrete execution plans across multiple engineering teams and parallel workstreams.
  • Define the strategy and roadmap for infrastructure areas while anticipating technical challenges and reliability risks.
  • Coach senior engineers and emerging leaders to develop their skills and improve team performance.
  • Drive cross-functional alignment with product, security, data, and support teams to resolve dependencies.
  • Hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineering talent while maintaining a high hiring bar.
  • Establish high standards for reliability, scalability, incident response, and overall engineering craft.
  • Partner with Staff engineers to make architecture decisions regarding distributed systems and internal platform design.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience with 10+ years of software development experience.
  • 4+ years of engineering management experience with a demonstrated track record of autonomous impact.
  • Experience leading high-complexity engineering teams delivering multiple difficult, high-impact workstreams in parallel.
  • Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Meaningful recruiting experience including a track record of attracting and developing senior engineering talent.
  • Technical depth sufficient to guide architecture decisions and maintain high standards for product quality and reliability.
  • Experience building or operating high-availability distributed systems, internal platforms, or developer infrastructure (preferred).
  • Experience with service networking, discovery, mesh, feature flags, configuration management, or production change governance (preferred).

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