Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Stripe
Bengaluru, IndiaremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 12+ years of professional software or infrastructure engineering experience required.
- BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent) required.
- Role based in Bangalore with global cross‑region impact.
- Opportunity to define multi‑year technical strategy for regional enablement.
- Mentorship and senior technical leadership responsibilities.
- Work on high‑reliability, globally scaled payment infrastructure.
Role overview
The Staff Engineer on the Regional Enablement Platform (REP) team will serve as a senior technical anchor for Core Infrastructure in Bangalore, influencing across AMER, EU, and APAC. This role leads the design, validation, and deployment of infrastructure that enables safe regional launches, traffic migrations, and failovers at global scale.
Responsibilities
- Define evidence‑based readiness criteria for regional launches, traffic migrations, and failovers – replacing manual checklists with repeatable, globally consistent patterns.
- Decide how Stripe validates that a new region can safely take traffic and continue working through network loss, failover, and deploy changes.
- Define the checks that must pass before launch or failover, build validation systems that replay real production paths against regional infrastructure, and turn those checks into CI/CD gates, operator workflows, and concrete fixes for service or platform owners.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks on critical payment paths; use system data to drive ownership and validate that platform mitigations measurably reduce impact.
- Lead end‑to‑end cross‑functional delivery for new‑region infrastructure, including safe service behaviors for remote control planes.
- Build reusable validation tooling that accelerates infrastructure integration for new acquisitions and reduces high‑priority blockers.
- Convert recurring operational friction into scalable platform capabilities used across teams.
- Lead technical conversations and define decision mechanisms across Core Infrastructure and product teams.
- Develop and communicate a multi‑year technical strategy for REP with clearly defined quarterly milestones and success metrics.
- Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
- Mentor and grow senior engineers, elevating technical planning, design standards, and cross‑region execution from Bangalore.
- Help build Core Infrastructure's senior technical bench in Bangalore through design review, mentoring, and cross‑region technical leadership.
- Collaborate effectively in a global, distributed environment with asynchronous decision‑making across AMER, EU, and APAC.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
- 12+ years of professional experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
- Proven track record leading complex, cross‑team or company‑wide infrastructure projects with high reliability and scale requirements.
- Strong engineering background in distributed systems, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure, with a focus on operational safety and correctness.
- Experience optimizing the reliability and security of distributed systems.
- Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime.
- Strong technical judgment and written communication skills, including design docs and trade‑off analysis.
- Experience mentoring engineers at various stages of their careers.
- Experience with one or more major cloud providers — AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP.
- Familiarity with ops culture and a solid understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards.
Nice to have
- Experience validating large‑scale migrations, failovers, regional launches, regionalization, or control‑plane behavior.
- Experience designing or operating infrastructure with strict reliability, correctness, latency, or availability requirements.
- Strong observability judgment across metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and incident analysis.
- Experience with networking, service discovery, traffic routing, databases, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure.
- Experience reducing packet loss, network latency, cross‑region dependency risk, or other infrastructure failure modes.
- Experience making infrastructure validation or readiness evidence usable by service owners, operators, or partner teams.
- Experience turning repeated operational problems into reusable tools, standards, or platform mechanisms.
- 3+ years of experience with Go.
Additional details
- Who we are: Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, serving millions of companies worldwide.
- Mission: Increase the GDP of the internet.
- Core Infrastructure organization operates foundational systems globally, including databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), HADR, AWS cloud, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery, and network edge infrastructure.
- The Regional Enablement Platform (REP) team helps Stripe launch and operate new regions without broken dependencies, using traffic replay, synthetics, failover drills, dependency analysis, CI/CD gates, and incident data.
- Location: Bangalore, India.
- Direct cross‑region influence across AMER, EU, and APAC.