# Staff Software Engineer, Storage Abstractions at Stripe

- Company: Stripe
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://stripe.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, Seattle
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=8171539&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/stripe-staff-software-engineer-storage-abstractions/

## 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

Tags: Service Platform

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