Staff Backend Engineer

Who you are

• The ideal candidate will have a passion for solving developer experience problems, and a pragmatic ability to ship results iteratively—powered by a mix of technical expertise across some or all of: language processing tools; version control systems; build systems; and distributed systems engineering. You’ll be working on a mix of engineer-facing systems, CI infrastructure platforms, and big-data engineering
• 10+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
• Hands-on experience designing and building large scale distributed systems
• A track record of technically mentoring junior and senior engineers
• Customer obsession, ability to articulate and represent customer experience in various forums to drive the right outcome
• Demonstrated ability of defining & driving complex initiatives/projects across multiple teams
• Proven success with cross-discipline and cross-team collaborations, possess strong conviction and courage skills
• Have the ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy, responsibility, and think of yourself as entrepreneurial
• Related experience in the area of Developer Tooling, CI/CD or DevOps
• You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description

What the job involves

• The Developer Productivity group is responsible for making Stripe’s developers happy and productive. We work on tools, processes, and code refactoring to accelerate Stripe engineering as Stripe scales
• We’re looking for people with an interest in building the tools to improve the day to day experience of Engineers in Stripe
• Build and manage systems to handle CI at massive scale—including batching, speculative stacking, merge-race inhibition, and more
• Build and manage systems to handle our enormous CI test suite–identifying and managing flaky tests, assessing and reproducing flakiness, and optimizing for test effectiveness
• Enhance our CI systems for reliability, including adaptive response to available capacity, resilience and self-recovery from outages, and highly-leveraged observability
• Detect and isolate code breakages to minimize their blast radius
• Work directly with product engineers to understand and deliver their productivity needs
• Scope and lead large technical projects with enormous impact for engineers within Stripe
• Design, build, and maintain the core CI systems used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams
• Scrutinize and reason clearly about the technology and architecture choices we make in building these products. In many cases, you will be the owner of these decisions
• Directly contribute to core interface design and write code. Serve as a role model for how great software should be written for Stripe as a whole
• Arbitrate critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices, Stripe system realities, and numerous stakeholders’ preferences and concerns
• Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe
• Drive the effective and highly-leveraged use of AI-assisted implementation, ops, and delivery within the team

Benefits

• Gym membership
• Food provided in the office
• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities
• Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
• Fertility benefits and parental leave