Engineering Manager, Observability

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

The Observability team builds the platform that all Stripe engineers use to diagnose the health of their services at scale. The team’s scope includes:

• Logging
• Distributed Tracing
• Metrics Collection, Storage and Dashboarding
• Alerting

What you’ll do

You will support a team of engineers focused on building the next generation of monitoring systems at Stripe. In addition to helping define the roadmap for the next 3-5 years, you will be interacting with many other managers and their teams at Stripe, who rely on the Observability platform to deliver stable and scalable services to our customers.

Responsibilities

• Drive the roadmap and priorities for the team, and work with other engineering teams across the company.
• Support the team in achieving a high level of technical excellence and stability.
• Be an active contributor to the team’s codebase and play a primary role in technical decision making
• Hire and develop talent on the team

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

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience with minimum 5 years of experience with software development.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a technical leadership role, preferably managing infrastructure teams and projects
• Interest in engaging with many other teams at Stripe, listening to their needs, and translating them into requirements for your team 

Preferred qualifications

• Experience leading monitoring / observability teams
• Experience using Prometheus, Grafana and time-series databases