Staff Engineer, Compute Foundation

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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 Compute Foundation group builds and operates the core systems that enable every Stripe engineer to ship code, configuration, and infrastructure changes safely and at high velocity. Embedded on the Imaging team, you will design, build, and distribute Linux machine images; manage host bootstrapping and OS-configuration systems; oversee OS packages and security-patching infrastructure; and provide platforms that empower service teams to safely run workloads across cloud providers and regions. What you’ll do Own the foundation of Stripe’s compute fleet: Stripe’s services rely on host infrastructure that boots reliably, receives accurate configurations, and operates safely. Your decisions will directly shape the base operating system, package ecosystems, security posture, and bootstrap behavior of Stripe’s fleet. Lead active architectural transformations: The team is driving key platform evolutions, including modernizing the OS configuration layer, containerizing workloads, scaling machine image distribution across multi-cloud regions, and streamlining OS upgrades and critical security patching. Drive broad, end-to-end host lifecycle ownership: Work across the entire host lifecycle - from image construction, package distribution, kernel and OS configuration, early boot/systemd, storage, networking initialization, and workload readiness. You will tackle complex engineering challenges that balance reliability, security, compliance, developer experience, and performance. Your judgment prevents fleetwide incidents: Changes to machine images, packages, kernels, bootstrap systems, and host configuration can have broad consequences. You will design validation, canarying, rollout, health-evaluation, and rollback mechanisms that contain blast radius and make foundational infrastructure changes safer. Agency to shape technical strategy: As a Staff engineer, you will set technical direction for the team’s systems, author designs that span multiple teams, mentor engineers and be the person engineering managers and engineers rely on for the technical north-star. Responsibilities Lead large, ambiguous infrastructure projects from initial design through production launch, broad adoption, and long-term operation. Define the architecture and success criteria, sequence the work, resolve technical ambiguity, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and shepherd projects to measurable impact. Set technical direction for the evolution of Stripe’s h...

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