Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Stripe•3h ago
Bengaluru, IndiaRemoteFull-timeStaff Level7+ yrs exp
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Staff EngineerInfrastructure EngineerMl Infra Engineer
- Who we are
- 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
- accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet
- we have a staggering amount of work ahead. 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 Organization
- The Core Infrastructure organization operates the foundational systems that power Stripe globally — including databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), high availability and disaster recovery (HADR), AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, mesh networking, service discovery
- network edge infrastructure.
- Within Core Infra, the Regional Enablement Platform (REP) team helps Stripe launch and operate new regions without learning about broken dependencies from users. REP builds the regionalization, validation, deploy-safety
- operator tooling needed to answer practical launch-readiness questions: can critical payment paths run from the new region
- services still depend on a remote control plane, what breaks under packet loss or failover
- what must be fixed before deploys, launches, traffic shifts
- failovers proceed. The team uses traffic replay, synthetics, failover drills, dependency analysis, CI/CD gates
- incident data to turn those findings into platform fixes, service-owner asks
- reusable readiness checks across networking, HADR
- This role is based in Bangalore and serves as a senior technical anchor for Core Infrastructure in India, with direct cross-region influence across AMER, EU, and APAC.
- What you'll do
- As a Staff Engineer on REP, you will play a key leadership role in enabling Stripe's infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. You will decide how Stripe validates that a new region can safely take traffic and continue working through network loss, failover
- deploy changes. You will define the checks that must pass before launch or failover, build validation systems that replay real production paths against regional infrastructure
- turn those checks into CI/CD gates, operator workflows
- concrete fixes for service or platform owners. You will also help build Core Infrastructure's senior technical bench in Bangalore through design review, mentoring
- cross-region technical leadership.
- Responsibilities
- Define evidence-based readiness criteria for regional launches, traffic migrations, and failovers — replacing manual checklists with repeatable, globally consistent patterns
- 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
- Collaborate effectively in a global, distributed environment with asynchronous decision-making across AMER, EU, and APAC
- 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
- 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
- Preferred qualifications
- 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.
Required skills
GoPostgreSQLMongoDBAWSGCPAzureKubernetesTerraformLinuxCI/CDDistributed SystemsSecurity