How much experience is required?

At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager, Streaming Services role.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: distributed systems, Tier0 infrastructure.

What seniority level is this role?

Stripe targets director candidates for this position.

Is this full-time or contract?

Full-time for this Engineering Manager, Streaming Services role at Stripe.

Engineering Manager, Streaming Services at Stripe

Joblaze summary

In the role of Engineering Manager for Streaming Services at Stripe, the individual will oversee the design and operation of the company's event infrastructure, ensuring it remains resilient and scalable under varying demands. This position requires a strong background in distributed systems and experience managing Tier0 infrastructure, alongside a strategic mindset to align engineering efforts with business growth. Ideal candidates will have at least five years of technical management experience and a proven ability to foster talent and drive operational excellence. The role emphasizes collaboration across teams to support Stripe's long-term vision.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Stripe's career page.
Stripe has 511 other open roles including Product Designer, Internal Tools, Full Stack Engineer, Growth, Partner Development Manager.
230 active distributed systems roles on Joblaze right now.
2 active Tier0 infrastructure roles on Joblaze right now.

Quick facts

How much experience is required?: At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager, Streaming Services role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: distributed systems, Tier0 infrastructure.
What seniority level is this role?: Stripe targets director candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Engineering Manager, Streaming Services role at Stripe.

From the original posting

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies-from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups-use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the Team

We build and operate Stripe’s Event Infrastructure — the reliable, low-latency backbone that captures, routes, and persists billions of events daily. We design resilient, scalable systems for real-time ingestion, filtering, transformation, and high-throughput delivery to downstream consumers. We prioritize observability, backpressure control, and graceful degradation to keep payments and platform features running under any load. By automating operations and iterating on capacity and cost optimizations, we enable product teams to build on a predictable event-streaming foundation.

The Impact You’ll Have

As an Engineering Manager in the infrastructure organization, you are expected to see problems others don't and rally people to independently create solutions. You will move beyond day-to-day management to act as an industry leader, effectively advocating for your organization's mission, values, and impact.

Architect the Org & Culture: Design and scale a high-leverage org structure. You will define what "Elite Engineering" looks like, setting the bar for craftsmanship and operational rigor serving as a blueprint for Stripe infrastructure.
Vision and Strategy: Define the scope, vision, and goals for your organization with little or no guidance from your manager. You will anticipate industry trends and use them to influence Stripe's long-range plans, setting direction on a multi-year timeframe for Stripe’s online storage layer.
Drive Operational Excellence: You will instill a culture of rigorous thinking and meticulous craftsmanship, ensuring our infrastructure remains proactive and resilient as Stripe’s business demands evolve.
Bridge Engineering & Business: You will collaborate with cross-functional leaders to align deep engineering needs with global business growth forecasts.
Build the Future Team: Proactively invest in the development of the organization and its people at all levels. You will obsess over talent, hiring and coaching other managers to elevate the skills of the leadership team.

Who You Are

We are looking for a visionary leader who thrives on operating Tier0 infrastructure and building world-class teams. You should be equally comfortable in high-level strategic conversations and deep-diving into database internals.

Minimum Requirements:

Proven Leadership: Minimum 5 years of experience in a technical engineering management role; overseeing strategic projects.
Systems Expertise: A deep technical background in distributed systems and experience operating Tier0 infrastructure at massive scale.
Product Mindset: Ability to bridge deep engineering needs with global business growth forecasts and product strategy, specifically building abstractions that empower thousands of other developers.
Strategic Navigator: Experience managing through ambiguity and making critical trade-offs between reliability, efficiency, and long-term architectural health.
Curiosity and Humility: A deep curiosity about the "nuts-and-bolts" of the business (e.g., global money movement) combined with the humility to continue learning and growing as a leader
Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Scale and Infrastructure: Successfully shipped and operated critical infrastructure (database internals or related field) with significant responsibility over funds and/or critical data
Strategic Ambiguity: Ability to navigate complex, high-impact work where you must define your own scope and vision

Cross-Functional Influence: A track record of getting other teams on board with your vision to support execution in a way that benefits the broader company