We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Batch Compute Infrastructure team at Stripe. As a key member of our engineering organization, you will be responsible for defining the multi-year roadmap for Stripe's Batch Compute Infrastructure, leading complex architectural shifts and modernization.

Responsibilities

• Drive Strategic Vision: Define the multi-year roadmap for Stripe’s Batch Compute Infrastructure, leading complex architectural shifts and modernization.
• Lead and Scale: Build, mentor, and aggressively scale a high-performing team of engineers, proactively investing in their career development and fostering a culture of operational excellence.
• Ensure Operational Rigor: Maintain unwavering reliability for a Tier-0 infrastructure processing tens of thousands of daily workloads, proactively mitigating risks and managing complex on-call telemetry.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Collaborate deeply with data platform teams, finance, and user groups to define compute efficiency metrics, execute massive-scale cost optimization strategies, and guarantee compliance with global financial regulations.
• Technical Stewardship: Provide technical guidance in architecture reviews, evaluating critical cost, performance, and reliability trade-offs in distributed systems design involving Hadoop, Spark, AWS cloud primitives, and modern metastores.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software development and engineering experience.
• 3+ years of direct engineering management experience, successfully building and operating high-velocity technical teams.
• Deep technical background in building, scaling, and maintaining large-scale distributed data systems or Tier-0 infrastructure using open-source tools (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Celeborn, Airflow, Kafka).
• Proven track record of driving significant infrastructure efficiency, managing capacity planning, and making data-driven cost-performance trade-offs.
• Experience working effectively in highly cross-functional, global organizations.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience managing remote or geographically distributed engineering teams.
• Familiarity with managing a massive fleet of Linux servers, on-premise Hadoop clusters, and modern cloud data architectures (e.g., AWS S3, Graviton).
• Demonstrated ability to navigate strategic ambiguity and deliver complex, multi-quarter infrastructural projects from inception to completion.
• Deep empathy for internal data users with a passion for building robust developer tooling and abstractions.

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Who we are

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.

About the team

The Big Data Infrastructure organization is a globally distributed team of approximately 40 engineers spread across Dublin, Bangalore, Seattle, and San Francisco. This team is the backbone of the company’s data ecosystem, responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining the highly reliable platforms that power data storage, orchestration, and processing at scale.

As the Head of Big Data Infra, you will lead a global, ~40-person engineering organization responsible for the foundational data platforms that drive the business. Reporting directly to the Head of Compute, you will define the strategic vision and roadmap for the company's data lake, orchestration pipelines, and batch computing environments.

The team's technical portfolio spans four core domains:

• Datalake (Storage): Managing scalable cloud storage and metadata layers, leveraging Amazon S3, Apache Iceberg (metastore and integrations), SAL, and Hive Metastore (HMS).

• Data Orchestration: Ensuring robust pipeline execution and scheduling using Apache Airflow.

• Batch Compute Infra (Data Store): Maintaining foundational data infrastructure and legacy systems, including Hadoop.

• Batch Compute Experience (Data Processing): Optimizing and delivering powerful data processing environments utilizing Apache Spark and Apache Celeborn.

What you’ll do

You will move beyond day-to-day management to act as an industry leader, effectively advocating for your organization's mission and impact. You will be expected to see problems others don't and rally people to independently create solutions.

Responsibilities

• Set Strategic Vision: Define the scope, vision, and goals for your organization with little or no guidance. You will anticipate industry trends to influence Stripe's long-range plans and set direction on a multi-year timeframe.

• Lead at Scale: Manage the achievement of and accountability for broad swaths of programs. You will establish wide-ranging and scaled processes, anticipating and removing roadblocks across multiple teams.

• Drive Operational Excellence: Instill a culture of rigorous thinking and meticulous craftsmanship. You will ensure your organization drives constant improvement in team processes and maintains high standards of operational rigor.

• Indirect Influence: Use indirect influence to steer other teams toward making the right decisions for Stripe. You will effectively communicate your team's plan and how it links to Stripe's company vision to cross-functional stakeholders.

• Obsess Over Talent: Proactively invest in the development of the organization and its people at all levels. You will recruit world-class talent and coach your direct reports,who are themselves managers - to elevate the skills of the leadership team.

• Stewardship & Culture: Act as an ambassador and advocate for Stripe, modeling ownership for all other Stripes. You will actively work to increase Stripe's inclusivity and diversity and use our operating principles to guide decision-making.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience with minimum 5 years of experience with software development.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing strategic projects.

• Minimum 3 years of Manager of Managers experience (managing other engineering managers).

• Experience building diverse teams to tackle challenging technical problems.

• Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.

Preferred qualifications

• Strategic Ambiguity: Proven ability to translate chaos into clarity and navigate complex, high-impact work where you must define your own scope.

• Infrastructure at Scale: Successfully shipped and operated critical infrastructure with significant responsibility over funds or critical data.

• 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.

• Curiosity: You enjoy learning and diving into the nuts-and-bolts of how things work (e.g., global money movement rails, currency conversion, or inter-company flows).

• Humility and Adaptability: You are humble and self-aware, with a history of adapting your management approach across different environments and seeking feedback to grow as a leader.

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