Staff Software Engineer — AI-Driven Code Review

Stripe, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Code Review domain, owning problems across the code review space, setting the technical direction, and delivering reliable tooling for Stripe engineers. You will work across UI, backend services, source control integrations, and AI-based review agents, shaping how changes are approved and how human judgment is applied.

You will collaborate with security, reliability, and language runtimes teams, using Go, Ruby, and TypeScript as needed, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience owning a technical domain and leading complex projects.
• Experience using data and user feedback to guide engineering decisions.
• Ability to align multiple teams and communicate tradeoffs effectively.
• Experience with agent harnesses or AI-driven review workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for code review and related tooling across Stripe.
• Build and improve agent harnesses to enable informed review decisions.
• Develop evaluations comparing agent and human review outcomes for safety and velocity.
• Explore AI/agent orchestration to accelerate delivery while preserving quality and change safety.
• Maintain and evolve Orbit Diffs and related review tooling used by engineers.

Skills

Technical leadership

Project delivery

Data-driven decisions

Cross-team alignment

AI/agent orchestration

Code review

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

Ruby

TypeScript

Orbit Diffs

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Code Review domain, owning problems across the code review space, setting the technical direction, and delivering reliable tooling for Stripe engineers. You will work across UI, backend services, source control integrations, and AI-based review agents, shaping how changes are approved and how human judgment is applied.

You will collaborate with security, reliability, and language runtimes teams, using Go, Ruby, and TypeScript as needed, and