Responsibilities: Lead a team of talented engineers on the team, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success. Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision. Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high-quality solutions that meet user needs. Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion. Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure's key engineering initiatives. Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture/design, vision/direction/requirements setting, and incident response processes) for team members. Build amazing end-to-end API, developer experiences, and Stripe's public API infrastructure and tooling. Ensure our APIs are secure, reliable, and performant while solving product problems and building delightful API and developer experiences for our users. Building the future of the Stripe API and scaling Stripe's API Infrastructure while working with product teams to extend the capabilities of our APIs.

Requirements: 10+ years of technical experience or 7+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering field 5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g., building internal or external developer products). Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers. Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth. Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding. Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility. Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication. Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset. Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to high-level psychological safety for all team members and partners. Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Go).

Preferred qualifications: Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide). Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc). Experience leading partially remote teams. Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs. Experience building serverless platforms. Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on-call rotations.

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Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Compensation

• $234K – $260K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)

• Mental health and wellness support

• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

• Relocation support for eligible employees

• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.

About the Team

The Technical Support team is responsible for ensuring that developers and enterprises can reliably build mission critical solutions using OpenAI models. We provide technical guidance, resolve complex issues and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our highly-capable models. We work closely with Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. We think from an automation-first mindset and leverage the latest in AI to scale our support operations. Join the Senior Support Engineering (SSE) team at OpenAI and help shape the future of Technical Support in the age of AI.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Support Engineer to collaborate directly with our strategic enterprise accounts and product teams, helping solve some of the most difficult problems faced by our Customers. You will be part of the best technical troubleshooting team at OpenAI, and our Customers and Engineering teams will look to you for technical guidance in addressing the most technically difficult issues in our environment.

As a Senior Support Engineer, you will design and run operational processes to monitor our top strategic customers and a 24x7 response team. You’ll work closely with our Infrastructure and Engineering teams to deliver the best possible experience to customers at scale. Working directly with our most strategic Customers - You will be crucial to the success of the most innovative, disruptive, and high-scale AI solutions being built with the OpenAI API platform.

The nature of this role will be low volume, high difficulty.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Be among the foremost technical and troubleshooting experts for our API platform at OpenAI. You are the last line of defense before the core Engineering team.

• Proactively identify and implement opportunities to scale support operations by leveraging automation and advancements in AI technologies. Contribute to shaping the future of technical support in an AI-driven era.

• Configure and use advanced monitoring and alerting workflows to proactively detect customer impacting issues in real time.

• In partnership with engineering, contribute to reliability reviews and preparedness for new features, launches, or strategic customer requirement updates. Ensure that operational readiness (monitoring, alerting, and fallback plans) is in place for any such changes.

• Design and refine incident response processes and documentation across strategic customers, engineering and support teams.

• Analyze operational metrics and incident RCAs to identify areas for improvement. Proactively recommend and implement enhancements to monitoring dashboards, alert configurations, and support workflows.

• Provide support coverage during holidays and weekends based on business needs.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field. A strong software engineering foundation is important for this role’s success.

• Have 8+ years of experience in technical operations roles such as SRE/NOC, designing monitoring systems and resolving production issues in fast-paced and mission-critical environments. A strong track record of troubleshooting complex technical problems at the systems level.

• Have deep familiarity with modern monitoring, alerting, and observability practices. Hands‑on experience setting up or managing metrics, logging, and tracing for distributed systems (e.g., understanding of SLIs/SLOs, alert tuning, dashboard creation).

• Have proven experience leading incident response for high‑severity outages or service disruptions. Able to perform real‑time incident coordination, root cause analysis, and communication with stakeholders.

• Are able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

• Are a strong communicator and team player, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Are able to adapt to changing priorities and requirements, and are flexible in your approach to problem-solving.

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