Staff Software Engineer - Code Forge & Monorepo Scale

Stripe, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus potential / sales commissions

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. is hiring for a role shaping how code is stored and served as the company’s monorepo scales. You will lead cross‑team efforts, write substantial code, and ensure systems stay correct, available, and fast. The position emphasizes mentoring and leveraging AI coding agents daily.

You will collaborate with Developer Productivity, AI teams, CI/Build, and security/compliance squads to accelerate velocity while preserving reliability and safety across regions.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building latency-sensitive systems that require strong consistency, durability, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience leading large, multi-engineer projects and mentoring engineers.
• Experience using AI coding agents in daily work.

Responsibilities

• Lead how Stripe stores and serves code as the monorepo grows.
• Define and drive long-term technical direction across teams.
• Design and build storage systems for code and history at scale.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery across regions.
• Partner with Dev AI and Environments teams to reduce latency for engineers, agents, and CI/Builds.
• Collaborate with Code Review to move changes quickly and safely.
• Mentor engineers and promote AI-enabled tooling and quality.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

AI coding agents

Mentoring

Performance debugging

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Mercurial

Mononoke/JJ

Job description

Stripe, Inc. is hiring for a role shaping how code is stored and served as the company’s monorepo scales. You will lead cross‑team efforts, write substantial code, and ensure systems stay correct, available, and fast. The position emphasizes mentoring and leveraging AI coding agents daily.

You will collaborate with Developer Productivity, AI teams, CI/Build, and security/compliance squads to accelerate velocity while preserving reliability and safety across regions.