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Staff Engineer - Production Eng

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Dublin 8186 Service Platform 3d ago

Staff Engineer, Workflow Engine

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Staff Engineer - Production Eng

Stripe · Dublin

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8186 Service Platform Ireland Locations Posted May 4, 2026

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, and accelerate new business opportunities. 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.

About the team

Stripe is one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world, and we’re scaling in every dimension: users, revenue, people, technology, processes, and more. The Production Eng team is building the systems that support Stripe’s API. We’re looking for people passionate about distilling complexity across a breadth of problems, caring deeply about both our infrastructure and the experience of using our platform. We are major contributors to the latency, reliability, and efficiency of Stripe’s API, and you’ll be responsible for ensuring we maintain a reliable and secure platform.

What you’ll do

Production Eng is a unique environment where you’ll be working across all of Stripe’s products, and truly steering the future of Stripe’s APIs, Developer, and User Experiences, and working with world class engineers.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of talented engineers on the team, providing mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success.
Partner with Engineering Managers to create roadmaps that deliver milestones toward a cohesive engineering vision.
Understand user needs and pain points to prioritize engineering work and deliver high quality solutions that meet user needs.
Drive the execution of projects, overseeing the entire development lifecycle from planning to delivery, while maintaining high standards of quality and timely completion.
Work with high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support the Infrastructure’s key engineering initiatives.
Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture/design, vision/direction/requirements setting, and incident response processes) for team members.
Build amazing end-to-end API, developer experiences and Stripe’s public API infrastructure and tooling.
Ensure our APIs are secure, reliable, and performant while solving product problems and building delightful API and developer experiences for our users.
Building the future of the Stripe API and scaling Stripe’s API Infrastructure while working with product teams to extend the capabilities of our APIs.

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

10+ years of technical experience or 7+ years in infrastructure / platform engineering field
5+ years in a strategic technical leadership role
Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g. building internal or external developer products).
Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers
Proven track record of delivering pragmatic solutions that accelerate business growth
Ability to adjust conversations from high-level discussions to detailed coding
Thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility
Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication
Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, determination, and a growth mindset
Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of people, genuinely caring for each other and contributing to high level of psychological safety for all team members and partner
Proficient in at least one of the programming languages (Java, Ruby, Python, Go).

Preferred qualifications

Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (leadership, users, company-wide).
Experience with a variety of common infrastructure platforms (databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, etc).
Experience leading partially remote teams.
Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs.
Experience building serverless platforms.
Experience managing rigorous incident response processes and on call rotations.

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Staff Engineer, Workflow Engine

Stripe · Seattle, US-Remote, San Francisco

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8186 Service Platform US Posted May 4, 2026

Who we are

About Stripe

About the team

The Workflow Engine team provides critical infrastructure for Stripe’s business, by allowing engineers to write asynchronous, stateful workflows that are both reliable and fault-oblivious. Our platform abstracts away challenging distributed system complexities and enables engineers to focus on the critical business logic they’re responsible for. Workflows power products such as Stripe Capital, Billing, and Connect, as well as many mission critical control planes.

What you’ll do

As a technical leader on the Workflow Engine team, you will help guide our service platform’s asynchronous execution capabilities, making asynchronous systems easy to build, resilient, and scalable. You will care deeply about the productivity of the engineers using our systems and lead the engineering organization towards ensuring a thoroughly considered ergonomic developer experience.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams to asynchronously process financial data and transactions.
Liaise with teams using this core infrastructure to ensure it meets their needs and expectations
Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack, including managing an on-call pager rotation
Plan for the growth of Stripe’s asynchronous infrastructure
Analyze existing software for performance optimizations and quality assurance testing
Mentor other engineers in the organization and review code
Manage projects, including measuring impact and success of the project, and creating a maintenance and reliability plan for the future

Who you are

Minimum requirements

Minimum 10+ years of engineering experience or equivalent combined work experience reflecting domain expertise
Demonstrated experience of leading initiatives spanning multiple teams and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence tech roadmap planning and execution
Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive business outcomes
Experience, mentoring, and investing in the development of engineers and peers

Preferred qualifications

Demonstrated expertise with Temporal, Cadence, or other workflow orchestration systems.
Expertise with tackling complex, distributed systems/infrastructure challenges at scale
Deep familiarity with API design for large scale distributed systems
User-centric orientation and track record for productizing elegant infrastructure solutions for complex problems

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