Staff Software Engineer - CI Services

Stripe · Dublin · 8126 Developer Infrastructure · listed August 5, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority

Staff

Experience asked

10+ years

Where

Not stated

Requirements listed

Length

585 words

In the posting’s own words

We’re looking for people with an interest in building the tools to improve the day to day experience of Engineers in Stripe. 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.

What it asks for · 3

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

Also a plus

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.

What the job covers

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.

Tools and skills named

Cloud & infra

Distributed systems2×
CI/CD
Observability

Ways of working

Mentorship

Words the posting leans on

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experience6×
build4×
developer4×
engineering4×
engineers4×
requirements4×
building3×
code3×
projects3×
scale3×
software3×
technical3×
test3×
tools3×
core2×

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