Stripe’s infrastructure powers businesses all over the world. We process payments, run marketplaces, detect fraud, help entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world, build world-class developer-friendly APIs, and more. If you’re an infrastructure engineer here, you’ll get to build the systems that power our products.

The Developer Productivity group is responsible for making Stripe’s developers happy and productive. We work on tools, processes, and code refactoring to accelerate Stripe engineering as Stripe scales.

We’re looking for people with a strong background (or interest!) in systems. We’d love to hear from you whether you’re a seasoned systems developer, or whether you’ve just learned you might like working with databases. Many of our infrastructure engineers work remotely, and we’d be happy to talk to you about the possibility of working remote.

As the Staff Engineer for Test Infrastructure you will:

• Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact for Engineers within Stripe
• Build and maintain the infrastructure which powers the core of Stripe’s Engineering workforce
• Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices we make in building these products. In many cases, you will be the decider of these decisions
• Directly contribute to core interface design and write code. Serve as a role model for how great software should be written for Stripe as a whole
• Arbitrate critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices, Stripe system realities, and numerous stakeholders’ preferences and concerns
• Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe

• You have a strong technical background, including 8+ years of experience with system architecture and API design at a top tier software company
• You have been a Staff, Principal, or Distinguished Engineer at a top tier company
• You have served as the technical lead for a team of engineers and can demonstrate broad technical leadership
• You have owned the technical roadmap for a business area
• You listen well and internalize the best ideas from all over the organization while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
• You work well cross-functionally and your co-workers at all levels and across all teams trust you
• You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your teams. Even senior engineers feel that they’re able to learn from you