Engineering Manager, Infrastructure (Privy)

Stripe • New York, NY

4d

About The Position

Privy builds APIs and tools that help developers create products using crypto rails, with infrastructure spanning wallets, multiple chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products. Its engineering team emphasizes rapid iteration, product judgment, and security-conscious design, using technologies including Node, React, and AWS.

The Engineering Manager, Infrastructure leads and develops a high-performing team responsible for infrastructure as a product for internal users and external offerings. The manager owns the team’s impact on Privy’s product and business, sets and advances the infrastructure vision, and enables engineers and other colleagues to ship better software through effective abstractions, education, and efficient tooling. The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical contribution, including work on secure enclaves, Bring Your Own Cloud deployments, performance, and scale.

Requirements

• Deep ownership and a high-level perspective on driving business impact.
• A performance-oriented mindset and high standards for quality and excellence.
• Technical excellence sufficient to independently evaluate quality and technical feedback.
• High emotional maturity, insightfulness, and care.
• Strong prior experience as a manager and leader.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing and operating systems that support hundreds of millions of users.
• Experience with secure enclave platforms such as AWS Nitro Enclaves.
• Experience with observability, incident response, capacity planning, performance tuning, or infrastructure automation, including IaC and CI/CD for infrastructure.
• Background building low-latency, high-throughput systems for trading or payment processing.
• Experience with public cloud or BYOC architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own long-term team outcomes and the team’s contribution to Privy’s product and business success.
• Drive Privy’s infrastructure vision with infrastructure engineers, including work on secure enclaves, one-click Bring Your Own Cloud deployments, performance, and scale.
• Hold the team accountable for quality, throughput, and performance.
• Lead infrastructure work across the company, including service definition, reliability engineering, and developer tooling.
• Ensure the team selects appropriate project scope, aligns decisions with business impact, and builds interfaces with other parts of the organization.
• Contribute as a player-coach by reviewing pull requests and design documents, investigating incidents, and staying technically involved.
• Coach engineers toward growth and their career goals.
• Build a supportive, motivating, celebratory team culture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed