Staff Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Within Core Infra, the Regional Enablement Platform (REP) team helps Stripe launch and operate new regions without learning about broken dependencies from users. 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. 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.

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

What you'll do

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

Responsibilities

• Define evidence-based readiness criteria for regional launches, traffic migrations, and failovers — replacing manual checklists with repeatable, globally consistent patterns
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks on critical payment paths; use system data to drive ownership and validate that platform mitigations measurably reduce impact
• Lead end-to-end cross-functional delivery for new-region infrastructure, including safe service behaviors for remote control planes
• Build reusable validation tooling that accelerates infrastructure integration for new acquisitions and reduces high-priority blockers
• Convert recurring operational friction into scalable platform capabilities used across teams
• Lead technical conversations and define decision mechanisms across Core Infrastructure and product teams
• Develop and communicate a multi-year technical strategy for REP with clearly defined quarterly milestones and success metrics
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Mentor and grow senior engineers, elevating technical planning, design standards, and cross-region execution from Bangalore
• Collaborate effectively in a global, distributed environment with asynchronous decision-making across AMER, EU, and APAC

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

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field
• 12+ years of professional experience in software or infrastructure engineering
• Proven track record leading complex, cross-team or company-wide infrastructure projects with high reliability and scale requirements
• Strong engineering background in distributed systems, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure, with a focus on operational safety and correctness
• Experience optimizing the reliability and security of distributed systems
• Experience scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime
• Strong technical judgment and written communication skills, including design docs and trade-off analysis
• Experience mentoring engineers at various stages of their careers
• Experience with one or more major cloud providers — AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP
• Familiarity with ops culture and a solid understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards

Preferred qualifications

• Experience validating large-scale migrations, failovers, regional launches, regionalization, or control-plane behavior.
• Experience designing or operating infrastructure with strict reliability, correctness, latency, or availability requirements.
• Strong observability judgment across metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and incident analysis.
• Experience with networking, service discovery, traffic routing, databases, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience reducing packet loss, network latency, cross-region dependency risk, or other infrastructure failure modes.
• Experience making infrastructure validation or readiness evidence usable by service owners, operators, or partner teams.
• Experience turning repeated operational problems into reusable tools, standards, or platform mechanisms.
• 3+ years of experience with Go.