Staff Backend Engineer, CI & Developer Tools

Uncover; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Senior Developer Productivity Engineer to strengthen our CI infrastructure and improve the day-to-day experience of engineers across the company. You will own large technical projects, design and evolve core CI systems, and collaborate with product engineering to ship faster and more reliably.

Candidates bring hands-on experience with distributed systems, mentoring junior and senior engineers, and a pragmatic approach to delivering iterative results.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional hands-on software development experience.
• Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Mentoring junior and senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Mentoring engineers

AI-assisted tooling

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Version control

Build systems

Observability tools

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Senior Developer Productivity Engineer to strengthen our CI infrastructure and improve the day-to-day experience of engineers across the company. You will own large technical projects, design and evolve core CI systems, and collaborate with product engineering to ship faster and more reliably.

Candidates bring hands-on experience with distributed systems, mentoring junior and senior engineers, and a pragmatic approach to delivering iterative results.