Stripe is hiring a Engineering Manager, Operator Tooling in 8134 Operations Platform — Bucharest. 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:
At Stripe, the Operator Tooling team plays a critical role as the Guardians of the Financial Ecosystem. We build intricate solutions to streamline our internal workflows, enabling over 8,000 human agents to make informed decisions about how different actors use our products—ensuring compliance with laws and Stripe policies.
We operate across multiple products, with a tech stack that includes Ruby, React, GraphQL, and MongoDB, alongside essential tools like GitHub, Logscale, and Grafana.
What you'll do
Day-to-day scope for the Engineering Manager, Operator Tooling as described in the posting:
Beyond technical excellence, we prioritize continuous growth and collaboration.
- Knowledge sharing sessions to expand your expertise
- Dedicated 1:1 mentorship to support your professional development
- Clear, measurable impact—your contributions will directly shape our ability to maintain a secure and compliant platform.
And now, we're looking for a passionate manager to expand our remit even further and reshape how operations looks inside Stripe. Full ownership is the ultimate green flag for us, but here are some high-level expectations.
Responsibilities
Day-to-day scope for the Engineering Manager, Operator Tooling as described in the posting:
- Recruit, coach, and develop a team of exceptional engineers.
- Lead the development of our operations tooling, providing reliable, user-first surfaces that just feel natural.
- Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and user empathy.
- Drive your engineering team toward exceptional technical quality, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership to your engineering team across multiple areas, including architecture, design, code reviews, quality assurance, and incident management.
Who you are
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
The listing frames the Engineering Manager, Operator Tooling 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:
- 8+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
- 2+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
- Hands-on experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems
- A track record of managing and mentoring junior and senior engineers
- Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome that benefits our customers
- A track record of attracting and hiring top talent and growing teams
- Demonstrated ability to define and drive complex initiatives and projects across multiple teams
- Proven success with cross-discipline and cross-team collaborations
Preferred qualifications
Experience and skills the team lists as required:
- Experience building and operating highly scalable, data-intensive services
- Experience building and operating observability solutions, such as designing and building telemetry collections, data transport and storage solutions, and composable UI architectures
We don't expect deep expertise in every dimension above, but we look for genuine interest in learning any of the less familiar areas.