Strategy & Operations, Infrastructure
Job Description
<h2><strong>Who we are</strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <h3><strong>About the team</strong></h3> <p>The Strategy & Operations (S&O) team for Infra is responsible for enabling the continued rapid growth and operational excellence of one of Stripe's most strategic areas - the infrastructure group. This role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, strategy, finance, data, GTM and day-to-day execution, ensuring the infra organization is well-informed, running efficiently and poised to deliver on the future product needs. </p> <p>As a key member of this team, you will tackle a diverse array of challenges that underpin Stripe’s technical foundations which will span system scalability, platform reliability, and efficiency. You will provide the analytical rigor and operational pragmatism necessary to scale <strong>Stripe’s infrastructure</strong> in a way that is both technically resilient and fiscally sustainable. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you will lead critical strategic projects, translate complex system performance and capacity trends into actionable infrastructure requirements, and drive the high-stakes architectural and resource decisions necessary for Stripe’s long-term growth.</p> <p>The Infrastructure Strategy & Operations team is a vital partner to Stripe’s engineering leadership and the Office of the CPTO, focused on three core pillars:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Setting and Driving the Engineering Agenda:</strong> We design the organizational structures and operating models that enable our infrastructure to scale ahead of the business. We lead critical technical governance forums and synthesize system-level health metrics such as <strong>utilization, latency, and fleet reliability</strong> into strategic insights for senior leadership.</li> <li><strong>Strategic Capacity & Infrastructure Planning:</strong> We deliver objective, data-driven strategies for our platform roadmap. By modeling <strong>future infrastructure needs</strong> against business growth forecasts, we ensure our global hardware and software investments are proactive rather than reactive, bridging the gap between deep engineering r