The Staff Engineer, Release Engineering role at Stripe focuses on enhancing the deployment platform that enables engineers to ship code and configuration changes safely and efficiently. The position is part of the Core Change Management group, specifically within the Service Deployments team, which is responsible for the full lifecycle of software changes. This role offers the opportunity to lead significant infrastructure projects, shape technical strategy, and improve deployment safety and reliability across the organization. The engineer will work closely with other teams to ensure seamless integration and operational excellence.

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of designing and shipping production infrastructure systems.
• Proven ability to lead large, ambiguous infrastructure projects from technical design through delivery.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and deployment orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container-based deployments.
• Strong background in service reliability and operational excellence.

• Own end-to-end technical delivery of large infrastructure projects from design to production launch.
• Architect the next generation of Stripe's deployment platform.
• Extend deploy anomaly detection and evolve blue-green traffic analysis.
• Lead the migration of Stripe's fleet of host-based services to containerized deployments.
• Own reliability and operational excellence for the deployment platform.