Incident Response Manager

Stripe
Dublin, Ireland

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have 5+ years of incident response experience in mission-critical SaaS environments and a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years of incident response in mission-critical SaaS environments and strong cross-functional leadership experience
    — “5+ years of demonstrable major incident experience for organizations that run mission critical applications or always-on Saas environments.”
  • Individuals who thrive in high-pressure environments and excel at translating technical complexity into clear messaging for stakeholders
    — “Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical issues for internal and external stakeholders.”
  • Professionals with a user-first mindset and experience managing incidents that impact customer experience and business operations
    — “User First approach to determine impact, providing accurate situation reports, facilitating comms bridges, and ensuring useful and timely external communications to users.”

Things to consider

  • Global 24/7 on-call responsibilities may require flexibility in work hours and time zones
    — “global 24/7 team responsible for driving incident response and management”
  • The role demands a high level of technical understanding across application and infrastructure domains
    — “Intermediate understanding of application development, application architectures, and applications deployed in cloud environments”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience leading concurrent incidents and resolving ambiguous problems with clear decision-making
    — “demonstrated ability to lead multiple incidents concurrently with authority and influence responders with agency and reasoning skills”
  • Showcase your ability to conduct root cause analyses and drive improvements in incident management processes
    — “Contribute to the root cause analysis process while conducting post-mortems, remediations identification, and ensure problem management tasks meet SLA and user expectations”
  • Demonstrate your ability to manage user-facing communications through examples of status pages or public incident reports
    — “Experience with broad user-facing communications (e.g. status pages, tweets) and/or targeted communications (e.g. direct emails, support ticket responses).”
  • Include measurable outcomes from incident management improvements or process enhancements you have led
    — “Drive improvements in the incident handling process and incident management metrics and tooling based on trends and data”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • Drive incident resolution with high urgency and accuracy
  • Conduct root cause analysis and remediations
  • Improve incident handling processes and tooling
Typical background
5+ years of major incident experience in mission-critical applications or always-on SaaS environmentsAbility to lead multiple incidents concurrently

Skills & requirements

Required

Incident Response ManagementCross-functional CollaborationTechnical AdeptnessCommunication SkillsRoot Cause AnalysisIncident Management Metrics And Tooling

Preferred

Proactive Incident HandlingData Analysis For Incident Insights

Stack & domain

Incident ResponseIncident ManagementRoot Cause AnalysisCommunicationsTechnical AdeptnessDistributed ArchitecturesCorrelating System BehaviorsApplication DevelopmentApplication ArchitectureUser-firstProactiveCollaborativeInfluentialProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamworkReliability EngineeringSecurityData Privacy

About the role

Original posting from Stripe

About the team

The Incident Ops team is a global 24/7 team responsible for driving incident response and management from detection to resolution. Stripe is proud of its five 9s reliability and this team is at the forefront of ensuring we keep it that way - working hand-in-hand with Reliability Eng and across the Tech Org. This team of incident response managers (IRM) is defined by our sense of ownership and how we drive incidents to resolution - marshaling the necessary cross-functional resources to respond to and resolve service outages, critical bugs, security attacks and anything that significantly impacts the users of our products. The team is user-first and ensures appropriate external communications from Stripe and senior management to keep our users informed of disruption to their experience of Stripe. The team is skilled in communications, incident handling and technical adeptness as incidents can arise from anywhere and cut across products and orgs in Stripe.

What you’ll do

As an Incident Response Manager (IRM), you’ll play the key role in driving the right level of response from Stripes to incidents, determining impact, rallying Stripes to mitigate, communicating to users and ensuring appropriate remediations and orchestrate the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process. You’ll work hand-in-hand with IRMs and engineers globally to ensure solid 24/7 coverage on how we monitor, detect, respond, communicate and mitigate incidents. When not managing incidents, you'll help scale our ability to respond to incidents, improve our operations, analyze data to provide insights and deepen our technical expertise in products. As a result, you’ll be seen as the protector of our users - in minimizing the impact of incidents on their business and ensuring that Stripe is always thinking of our users.

Responsibilities

Act as an on-call Incident Commander, responsible for driving and managing incident resolution with a high level of urgency, cross-functional collaboration, and accuracy, while partnering with a global and diverse set of teams, including Engineering, Product, Policy, Risks, PR, Legal, Execs, etc.

Lead all user-facing incidents across domains at Stripe - including reliability, technical, security, and data privacy

"User First" approach to determine impact, providing accurate situation reports, facilitating comms bridges, and ensuring useful and timely external communications to users

Proactively update internal stakeholders, make decisions through data and influence by partnering with Engineering, Sales, Support and other cross-functional teams

Contribute to the root cause analysis process while conducting post-mortems, remediations identification, and ensure problem management tasks meet SLA and user expectations

Drive improvements in the incident handling process and incident management metrics and tooling based on trends and data of Stripe's incidents in collaboration with engineering, product and operations teams

Contribute to processes, projects, forums, or groups that impact and grow team culture positively

Minimum Requirements

5+ years of demonstrable major incident experience for organizations that run mission critical applications or always-on Saas environments.

Demonstrated ability to lead multiple incidents concurrently with authority and influence responders with agency and reasoning skills to resolve ambiguous problems and drive to root cause.

Intermediate understanding of application development, application architectures, and applications deployed in cloud environments

Good understanding of infrastructure, including physical, virtual, and container-based compute platforms

Demonstrated quantitative, and analytical skills in data manipulation using SQL, Splunk or other tools.

Excellent task management skills, must be detail-oriented with ability to remain composed, methodical, and think fast in a high-pressured environment.

Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical issues for internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

Domain expertise in classes of incidents such as technical, privacy, security or crisis with a strong desire to continuously learn about Stripe's products, technical issues and systems.

Ability to review complex technical details regarding ongoing issues/events and convey the key details to senior stakeholders to facilitate real-time decision making.

Experience with broad user-facing communications (e.g. status pages, tweets) and/or targeted communications (e.g. direct emails, support ticket responses).

Familiarity operating or managing distributed architectures with the ability to correlate system behaviors based on known inter-dependencies.

Demonstrated understanding of full stack development and support

Source: Stripe careers

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