Engineering Manager, Sandboxes
- Location
- Seattle, WA · Hybrid
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 19 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Engineering management of teams of 5+ engineers
- Full-time software development experience
- Building reusable, extensible software
- Translating ambiguous goals into clear priorities
- Technical depth for architecture and product design discussions
- Ownership of initiatives through delivery and operation
Also useful
- Experience with testing tools or sandbox environments
- Experience building developer platforms or APIs
- Experience with payments or financial infrastructure
- Experience operating critical systems at scale
What you'll do
You'll lead and grow the Sandboxes engineering team, setting technical direction and operating critical systems. You'll build a culture of operational excellence and thoughtful product development.
You'll work directly with users to understand their needs and partner with Product, Design, and Data Science to shape and deliver the team's strategy. The role combines building reusable testing capabilities across Stripe with attention to the details that make developer tools effective and easy to use.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering planning and execution, partnering with Design to build clear, useful testing experiences.
- Shape the team's strategy and roadmap, aligning partners across Product, Design, Infrastructure, Marketing, and Operations.
- Own delivery from problem definition through rollout and ongoing operation, improving both system performance and the user experience.
- Uphold high engineering standards across the team's codebases and development practices.
- Partner with Recruiting to hire engineers and build a diverse, high-performing team.
- Coach and mentor engineers, provide candid feedback, and support career development tailored to their goals.
Who you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, we encourage you to apply.
Minimum requirements
- 4+ years of engineering management experience, directly managing and growing teams of 5+ engineers building and shipping products at scale.
- 8+ years of full-time software development experience.
- Experience building reusable, extensible software that supports a range of user needs, with strong user empathy and a commitment to high-quality user experiences.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a track record of finding practical solutions to complex challenges.
- Experience turning ambiguous goals into clear priorities and delivering multiple high-impact workstreams.
- A track record of building a supportive environment with candid feedback and high expectations.
- Technical depth to guide architecture and product design discussions and help engineers make informed tradeoffs.
- Experience taking ownership of initiatives and moving work forward independently.
Preferred qualifications
- Strong product and design judgment, including the ability to simplify complex user experiences.
- Experience making decisions and building strong working relationships across teams.
- Experience building and leading a distributed team across multiple locations and time zones.
- Experience building developer tools or platform capabilities.
- Experience building testing tools or capabilities that help users test within a product.
- Experience building AI agent systems or tools that support agent-driven development.
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
Testability has long been a priority for Stripe. Before users trust code with their money, they need to verify that it's safe and correct. This need drove Stripe to build test mode and, more recently, Sandboxes, which enables safe, isolated, and scalable testing.
As businesses build with AI and agents, their testing needs are evolving. Stripe customers use claimable sandboxes to add Stripe capabilities to prototypes before business registration. Once onboarded, they provision isolated test environments to support agents' exploration. These capabilities help developers and agents build and test their integrations with Stripe.
The Sandboxes team defines, builds, and operates these testing capabilities. We work across Stripe to make our products testable, helping businesses develop with confidence and shaping the future of Stripe's developer platform.
From Stripe's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 21, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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This Engineering Manager, Sandboxes position at Stripe is located in Seattle, WA (Hybrid). Always check Stripe's application page for specific state eligibility or relocation policies.
What qualifications are required for Engineering Manager, Sandboxes at Stripe?
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