[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Developer Productivity @Stripe

Role Description

This role involves designing and building innovative solutions and products with a focus on reliability, scalability, and usability.

• Design, build, and maintain innovative next-generation or first-generation versions of solutions and products.
• Define and design opinionated architectural strategies, policies, and abstractions for sustainable internal solutions.
• Diagnose and resolve performance challenges within core infrastructure using low-level profiling and systems programming.
• Apply distributed systems fundamentals to architect the next generation of the code storage platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and stakeholders to support key initiatives.
• Partner with Engineering Management, Product Manager, and key leaders to drive the long-term vision.
• Lead and manage a team of engineers, providing technical mentorship and support.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field
• 10+ years of professional experience writing high-quality production-level code or software programs, focusing on systems programming, operating systems fundamentals, or storage infrastructure
• Experience building infrastructure-as-a-product with a strong focus on user needs
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, comfortable interacting with both technical and non-technical participants
• Curiosity to continuously learn about new technologies and business processes
• Energized by delivering effective, user-first solutions through creative problem-solving and collaboration

Requirements

• Deep expertise in Git internals, object formats, and packfiles, experience building custom Source Code Management (SCM) tooling, or experience scaling large monorepos on GitHub Enterprise Server/Cloud
• Experience with file watching services like Watchman or familiarity with filesystem notification technologies
• Deep expertise in C or C++ systems programming, particularly in large-scale infrastructure or database internals
• Proficiency with low-level profiling, tracing, and debugging tools (e.g., perf, eBPF, or reversible debuggers like rr)
• Experience working on the backend of complex systems such as web browsers (WebKit/Chromium), databases, or high-performance computing environments
• Familiarity with distributed systems principles, particularly in relation to storage and high-availability systems
• Experience contributing performance patches to upstream open-source projects (Git, Linux, etc.) is a plus