Stripe · 1 day ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure
SEA, SF
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
13+ years expStripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to enhance their Developer Infrastructure. This role involves defining architectural strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and leading a team of engineers to improve productivity and developer satisfaction.
FinanceFinTechMobile PaymentsSaaS
Responsibilities
Define and design opinionated architectural strategies, policies, and abstractions that build a long term sustainable solution for internal Stripes, that will in turn enhance the experience of millions of Stripe users
Collaborate nimbly with cross functional partners (PM), high-visibility teams and their stakeholders to support their key initiatives - navigating various types of organizational complexity with the support of your own leadership team
Lead and manage a team of talented engineers on the team, providing technical mentorship, guidance, and support to ensure their success
Create and execute strategies to measure engineering productivity and sentiment in order to prioritize the right projects that will have the most impact on productivity at Stripe
Developer strategies to effectively deploy AI development strategies (coding assistants and agentic development) across the Stripe organization
Qualification
Required
BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field
13+ years of professional experience in a software development or DevOps automation role
Experience building systems focussing on developer productivity and tooling (e.g. code review, CI/CD, build systems, version control, IDE, etc)
Experience leading projects on a cross-team and company-wide scale
Experience optimizing the reliability and security of distributed systems
Experience mentoring engineers at various stages in their careers
Experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems
Experience driving a culture of operational excellence, with a deep understanding of metrics, alerts, and dashboards
Preferred
Experience with build systems (Bazel, Gradle, Buck, CMake)
Experience with AI Development Strategies (Coding Assistants, Agentic Development)
Experience in a development team that utilizes AWS/Azure/OCI/Google Cloud
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Terraform
Company
Stripe
Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$9.44BKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementThrive CapitalFounders Fund
2025-02-27Secondary Market
2024-04-12Secondary Market· $694.16M
2024-03-01Series Unknown
Leadership Team
David Singleton
CTO
Steffan Tomlinson
CFO
Recent News
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