Engineering Manager, Usage Platform

Engineering Manager, Usage Platform

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 Usage Platform team delivers low-latency, usage-based billing for companies offering AI-driven services. We own the infrastructure that makes this possible at scale, including usage ingestion and aggregation, replay handling, and alerting.

What you'll do

As the engineering manager for Usage Platform, you'll own the operational and technical direction of systems that handle high-throughput live traffic at scale, and you'll shape the team as it expands to support new use cases. You'll work closely with internal and external customers to build billing solutions that meet real-world needs.

Responsibilities

Lead a team responsible for usage ingestion, aggregation, replay handling, and alerting systems

Own the technical strategy and roadmap for low-latency, usage-based billing infrastructure

Drive operational excellence across billing infrastructure systems

Hire and develop engineers as the team expands into new scope

Partner with stakeholders across organizations to deliver billing solutions

Work backwards from internal and external customer needs to define priorities and scope

Define and uphold engineering standards across a team owning business-critical billing infrastructure

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

4+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers focused on building and shipping products at scale

8+ years of full-time software development experience

Track record of leading engineering teams responsible for high-traffic, low-latency, and extensible systems

Deep user empathy with a history of working backwards from internal and external customer needs

Proven ability to drive rigorous decision-making and build strong partnerships across teams

Ability to handle ambiguity, creatively solve complex challenges, and execute on competing high-impact priorities

Demonstrated focus on system reliability, operational health, and incident response

Preferred qualifications

Experience building and leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones

Track record of delivering shared infrastructure across multiple business units

Background in billing, metering, or large-scale distributed systems