Engineering Manager, Sandboxes

Stripe

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$236,000–$354,000 / yr
Posted
6 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 89% of similar roles. Most pay $192,125–$270,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $295k versus about $231k 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 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, Sandboxes

The Engineering Manager, Sandboxes leads and grows the Sandboxes engineering team, which defines, builds, and operates testing capabilities for the developer platform. This role involves setting technical direction, shaping the team strategy, and owning delivery from problem definition through rollout. You will work directly with users to understand their needs while partnering with Product, Design, and Data Science to build reusable testing experiences. Key responsibilities include leading engineering planning, upholding high engineering standards across codebases, and mentoring engineers. The role requires technical depth to guide architecture and product design discussions for systems that provide isolated, scalable testing environments. You will solve complex problems related to claimable sandboxes and isolated test environments that support developers and AI agents building integrations with financial infrastructure.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Washington?

Median $268200 from 37 postings across 10 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead engineering planning and execution to build clear and useful testing experiences.
  • Shape the team’s strategy and roadmap by aligning with Product, Design, and Infrastructure partners.
  • Own delivery from problem definition through rollout while improving system performance and user experience.
  • Uphold high engineering standards across all team codebases and development practices.
  • Partner with Recruiting to hire and build a diverse, high-performing engineering team.
  • Coach and mentor engineers by providing candid feedback and supporting individual career development.
  • Guide architecture and product design discussions to help engineers make informed technical tradeoffs.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of engineering management experience directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers building and shipping products at scale.
  • 8+ years of full-time software development experience.
  • Experience building reusable, extensible software with strong user empathy and a commitment to high-quality user experiences.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of finding practical solutions to complex challenges.
  • Experience turning ambiguous goals into clear priorities and delivering multiple high-impact workstreams.
  • A track record of building a supportive environment with candid feedback and high expectations.
  • Technical depth to guide architecture and product design discussions and help engineers make informed tradeoffs.
  • Experience taking ownership of initiatives and moving work forward independently.
  • Strong product and design judgment, including the ability to simplify complex user experiences (preferred).
  • Experience making decisions and building strong working relationships across teams (preferred).
  • Experience building and leading a distributed team across multiple locations and time zones (preferred).
  • Experience building developer tools or platform capabilities (preferred).
  • Experience building testing tools or capabilities that help users test within a product (preferred).
  • Experience building AI agent systems or tools that support agent-driven development (preferred).

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