13 hours ago
Sydney, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead large, ambiguous infrastructure projects from design through production launch, adoption, and long-term operation.
- Set technical direction for machine-image construction, validation, distribution, operation, containerization, and host-based infrastructure.
- Design validation, staged rollout, observability, rollback, and guardrail systems that make fleet-wide changes safe and predictable.
- Lead incident response and reduce operational toil while improving reliability, security, debuggability, and maintainability.
- Partner with infrastructure, security, compliance, and service teams on cross-organizational technical direction.
- Lead design reviews, establish host-infrastructure standards, mentor senior engineers, and contribute through coding, code review, debugging, and operational leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and shipping large-scale production infrastructure systems.
- Experience leading ambiguous infrastructure projects end-to-end, coordinating cross-team dependencies and migrations across many consuming teams.
- Deep expertise in Linux systems, including boot and initialization, processes, networking, filesystems, storage, packages, and production debugging.
- Strong foundations in cloud compute infrastructure, including machine images, virtual machines, autoscaling fleets, launch configuration, block storage, IAM, health evaluation, and multi-region operations in AWS, Azure, or an equivalent environment.
- Experience with fleet-scale image, host-management, configuration-management, or infrastructure-provisioning systems.
- Experience with automated validation, canarying, progressive rollout, health evaluation, rollback, and blast-radius containment for infrastructure changes.
- Strong service-reliability and operational-excellence background, including incident response, toil reduction, and building reliable, debuggable, maintainable systems.
- Track record of broad technical impact across complex systems, including code review, mentorship, and setting team-level technical direction.
- Preferred: experience with image-based, immutable, or declarative infrastructure platforms; containers and Kubernetes; large-scale Linux fleets; progressive delivery and fleet-health systems; configuration-management modernization; OS security patching, software supply-chain security, artifact provenance, and developer self-service platforms.
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About Stripe
Stripe builds financial infrastructure for internet businesses, offering APIs and tools for online and in‑person payments, subscriptions, marketplaces/payouts, fraud prevention, identity, tax, issuing, and treasury. It monetizes through per‑transaction fees and SaaS pricing for advanced products. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in South San Francisco, Stripe is privately held and serves companies from startups to large enterprises worldwide.