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
75 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

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This role pays more than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $155,800–$254,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $295k versus about $205k for comparable roles.

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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 131 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,400–$285,600 across 128 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

The Engineering Manager, Infrastructure joins the Infrastructure organization to lead or influence multiple engineering teams responsible for shared platforms that enable engineering teams to build, deploy, run, and scale reliable products. You will define strategies and roadmaps, develop senior talent, and drive cross-functional alignment to deliver business-critical infrastructure with broad internal adoption. Day-to-day responsibilities include managing parallel high-priority workstreams, setting standards for reliability and scalability, and partnering on architecture decisions for distributed systems. You will work with technologies including Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Celeborn, while utilizing Amazon Web Services, DynamoDB, Aurora, S3, Ruby, Go, Java, and Python. The role solves complex problems in service networking, discovery, configuration propagation, production change management, and large-scale data processing.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in New York?

Median $254488 from 41 postings across 13 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Drive impact across multiple teams by translating organizational goals into concrete execution plans and parallel workstreams.
  • Define the strategy and roadmap for infrastructure areas while anticipating technical challenges and reliability risks.
  • Develop senior engineering talent through coaching, creating stretch opportunities, and providing candid performance feedback.
  • Align cross-functional stakeholders in product, security, and data teams to resolve ambiguity and shared priorities.
  • Hire and scale the organization by attracting and retaining high-performing senior engineering talent.
  • Set and maintain high standards for system reliability, scalability, incident response, and engineering craft.
  • Partner with Staff engineers to make architectural 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, service discovery, service mesh, feature flags, or production change governance (preferred).

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