Staff Backend Engineer - CI Services

Stripe; Dublin; On-site; EUR 132,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus potential

Retirement plans

Health benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe in Dublin, Ireland, is hiring a Senior Developer Productivity Engineer to build and improve our core CI systems and developer experience across engineering teams.

You will design and ship scalable tooling, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to meet productivity goals, including AI-assisted delivery initiatives.

This role offers a competitive salary and equity, with an in-office expectation at multiple Stripe locations.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Directly contribute to core interface design and write code; serve as a role model for high-quality software.
• Arbitrate critical decisions with best practices, system realities, and stakeholder concerns.
• Teach and mentor the next generation of technical leaders at Stripe.
• Drive AI-assisted implementation, ops, and delivery within the team.

Skills

10+ years software development

Distributed systems

Mentoring engineers

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Distributed systems tooling

Job description

About Stripe

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.

Who we are

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.

About The Team

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. 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 you’ll do

We Have a Ton Of Important Work To Do, Which Is Why We’re Hiring! Our Active Projects Change All The Time, But Here Are a Few Examples Of Recent Projects So You Can Get An Idea Of The Types Of Work We Do

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum Requirements

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

In‑office expectations

Office‑assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users. This expectation may vary depending on role, team and location. For example, Stripes in Stripe Delivery Center roles in Mexico City, Mexico, Bengaluru, India, and Dublin, Ireland work 100% from the office. Also, some teams have greater in‑office attendance requirements, to appropriately support our users and workflows, which the hiring manager will discuss. This approach helps strike a balance between bringing people together for in‑person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility when possible.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this role in the primary location is €132,000 - €198,000. This range may change if you are hired in another location. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (“OTE”) range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and specific location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the primary location may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.

Specific benefits and details about what compensation is included in the salary range listed above will vary depending on the applicant’s location and can be discussed in more detail during the interview process. Benefits/additional compensation for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; retirement plans; health benefits; and wellness stipends.

At Stripe, we’re looking for people with passion, grit, and integrity. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Stripe, we welcome diverse perspectives and people who think rigorously and aren’t afraid to challenge assumptions.

Join us.