Staff Engineer, Workflow Engine

Who we are

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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

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 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

• 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

Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in our Bucharest, Romania site have an 80% in‑office expectation, and those in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico and Bengaluru, India work 100% from the office.

Also, some teams have greater in‑office attendance…