Stripe is hiring a Technical Program Manager, Core Infrastructure in 8910 Technical Program Management — Seattle, SF, Remote. The overview below is synthesized from the employer posting on stripe.com: factual requirements and scope are preserved, but prose is rewritten with editorial context. Verify details and apply via the employer link.
Who we are
About Stripe
Company context from the listing:
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
Company context from the listing:
The infrastructure teams provide efficient and optimized infrastructure for Stripe to build secure, reliable, and differentiated products, while enabling Stripe developers to achieve their highest potential. Stripe makes it easy for any developer to access and manage the capabilities of the financial system while maintaining the least regulatory friction.
What you'll do
Day-to-day scope for the Technical Program Manager, Core Infrastructure as described in the posting:
As a Technical Program Manager in the Infrastructure team, you'll play a key role within engineering and drive programs that span across Stripe in the core infrastructure of Stripe's payment systems. You're responsible for the successful definition, cross-functional strategy, planning, and execution of large-scale technical programs that help to solve complex problems and enable products and infrastructure at scale.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day scope for the Technical Program Manager, Core Infrastructure as described in the posting:
- Work with teams across the organization to understand pain points in their infrastructure usage to find common ideas and work to create solutions that span multiple domains.
- Define and produce high-quality written proposals, communications, and documentation.
- Execute on technical programs that require deep systems and engineering-level knowledge.
- Partner with Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, Engineers, and other Technical Program Managers to define, scope, and drive large programs to conclusion.
- Play a key part in shaping the technical design, predicting technical roadblocks by collaborating with engineers, and identifying trade-offs.
- Develop, implement, and iterate on program management techniques, frameworks, and KPIs to achieve goals with well-defined success criteria.
- Elevate the execution muscle of engineering teams around you. Train them to be better at delivery where needed.
- Help influence peers and stakeholders and build consensus while dealing with ambiguity.
- Leverage data and acquired knowledge to drive strategic decisions at an engineering leadership level.
- Create widely circulated plans, driving consistency, clarity, and building alignment across teams.
- Operationalize and execute critical cross-functional programs spanning multiple engineering organizations for Infrastructure (Developer Infrastructure, Core Infrastructure, Service Infrastructure).
Who you are
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
The listing frames the Technical Program Manager, Core Infrastructure at Stripe as a hands-on product role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- 5+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, or technical program management experience.
- Experience in core infrastructure such as database, cloud compute, networking, and services.
- Understand distributed systems.
- Understand cloud architecture.
- Excellent problem-solving skills. You digest complex information, distill it, and make recommendations and proposals.
- You have a track record of providing program management during all phases of software development from kickoff to launch, demonstrating critical thinking, challenging the norms, and thought leadership.
- You have very strong written and verbal communication skills, building strong relationships with stakeholders, teams, and senior leaders around the organization.
- You drive internal and external process improvements across multiple teams and functions and bring a wealth of experience, opinions, proposals, and best practices.
- Experience operating autonomously and rapidly and leading large-scale efforts across multiple teams and functions, with stakeholders in different disciplines across time zones.
Preferred qualifications
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- Knowledge in software architecture, systems design, and service-oriented architecture
- You're comfortable working in a fast-changing environment as the AI tool chain continues to evolve.
- You're comfortable working with geographically distributed teams.
- Background in technical program management, in software infrastructure
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure in compute, networking, databases, and service frameworks is a bonus.
- Writing and debugging SQL is a plus.