Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Role overview

Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure at Stripe

<p>This role is based in <strong>Bangalore</strong> and serves as a senior technical anchor for Core Infrastructure in India, with direct cross-region influence across AMER, EU, and APAC.</p>

<p>We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role.

Responsibilities

• You will decide how Stripe validates that a new region can safely take traffic and continue working through network loss, failover, and deploy changes.
• You will also help build Core Infrastructure's senior technical bench in Bangalore through design review, mentoring, and cross-region technical leadership. </p>

Employment details

• REP builds the regionalization, validation, deploy-safety, and operator tooling needed to answer practical launch-readiness questions: can critical payment paths run from the new region, which services still depend on a remote control plane, what breaks under packet loss or failover, and what must be fixed before deploys, launches, traffic shifts, or failovers proceed.
• Location: Bengaluru [India]

Application details

• If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply.

About the employer

• <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3>
• 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.
• <p>Within Core Infra, the <strong>Regional Enablement Platform (REP)</strong> team helps Stripe launch and operate new regions without learning about broken dependencies from users.

Additional role details

• <h2><strong>Who we are</strong></h2>
• <p>Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.
• Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and 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.</p>
• <h3><strong>About the Organization</strong></h3>
• <p>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, and network edge infrastructure.</p>
• The team uses traffic replay, synthetics, failover drills, dependency analysis, CI/CD gates, and incident data to turn those findings into platform fixes, service-owner asks, and reusable readiness checks across networking, HADR, and service teams.</p>
• <h2><strong>What you'll do</strong></h2>
• <p>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 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.
• <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p>
• <ul>
• <li>Define evidence-based readiness criteria for regional launches, traffic migrations, and failovers — replacing manual checklists with repeatable, globally consistent patterns</li>
• <li>Proactively identify and mitigate risks on critical payment paths; use system data to drive ownership and validate that platform mitigations measurably reduce impact</li>
• <li>Lead end-to-end cross-functional delivery for new-region infrastructure, including safe service behaviors for remote control planes</li>
• <li>Build reusable validation tooling that accelerates infrastructure integration for new acquisitions and reduces high-priority blockers</li>
• <li>Convert recurring operational friction into scalable platform capabilities used across teams</li>
• <li>Lead technical conversations and define decision mechanisms across Core Infrastructure and product teams</li>
• <li>Develop and communicate a multi-year technical strategy for REP with clearly defined quarterly milestones and success metrics</li>
• <li>Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack</li>
• <li>Mentor and grow senior engineers, elevating technical planning, design standards, and cross-region execution from Bangalore</li>
• <li>Collaborate effectively in a global, distributed environment with asynchronous decision-making across AMER, EU, and APAC</li>
• </ul>
• <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2>
• The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.</p>
• <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3>
• <li>BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field</li>
• <li>12+ years of professional experience in software or infrastructure engineering</li>
• <li>Proven track record leading complex, cross-team or company-wide infrastructure projects with high reliability and scale requirements</li>
• <li>Strong engineering background in distributed systems, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure, with a focus on operational safety and correctness</li>
• <li>Experience optimizing the reliability and security of distributed systems</li>
• <li>Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime </li>
• <li>Strong technical judgment and written communication skills, including design docs and trade-off analysis</li>
• <li>Experience mentoring engineers at various stages of their careers</li>
• <li>Experience with one or more major cloud providers — AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP</li>
• <li>Familiarity with ops culture and a solid understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards</li>
• <h3><strong>Preferred qualifications</strong></h3>
• <li>Experience validating large-scale migrations, failovers, regional launches, regionalization, or control-plane behavior.</li>
• <li>Experience designing or operating infrastructure with strict reliability, correctness, latency, or availability requirements.</li>
• <li>Strong observability judgment across metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and incident analysis.</li>
• <li>Experience with networking, service discovery, traffic routing, databases, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure.</li>
• <li>Experience reducing packet loss, network latency, cross-region dependency risk, or other infrastructure failure modes.</li>
• <li>Experience making infrastructure validation or readiness evidence usable by service owners, operators, or partner teams.</li>
• <li>Experience turning repeated operational problems into reusable tools, standards, or platform mechanisms.</li>
• <li>3+ years of experience with Go.</li>