Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.
About the role
As a Staff Software Engineer on STAX, you will set technical direction and lead multi-year initiatives at the intersection of developer infrastructure, data access, and AI. You will work hands-on with engineers across Stripe to make storage access simpler, safer, and more interoperable, while helping product and infrastructure teams evolve their systems without fleet-wide migrations. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- This is a Staff-level role so we're looking for 12+ years of professional software engineering experience and 5+ years leading technical strategy and delivery for complex, cross-team engineering initiatives
- Experience leading engineering team(s) working on API design, SDKs, abstractions, frameworks, or client libraries (e.g., building internal or external developer products)
- Experience designing reliable distributed systems with a focus on data correctness, performance, and safe evolution of critical infrastructure
- Work designing developer infrastructure for AI or agentic workflows and helping define a technical direction for their use
- Demonstrated customer-centricity, with a track record of deeply understanding user needs and obsessing over delivering simple, reliable experiences for internal or external customers
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure and products for internal or external customers
More about this role
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.
The Storage Abstractions (STAX) team builds the software layer through which Stripe services access stored data. We own the database SDKs that hundreds of Ruby and Java services use to read and write data safely, reliably, and efficiently without needing to understand the underlying database, routing, or operational complexity.
Our work creates leverage across Stripe: by providing stable interfaces and safeguards at the storage layer, we help teams build products with confidence while enabling Stripe’s data architecture to evolve. Alongside engineers, we are designing for AI agents as customers of this foundation, making storage capabilities discoverable, interoperable, and safe to use across...
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